What is the importance of revelation in the Catholic faith?

Answer 1

Without getting into it's actual importance, Revelations supposedly tells the story of the end of the world. Also called the apocalypse. If you're referring to revelation in the sense of premonition, then it could be said that it allows one to "see the future" so to speak.

Answer 2

AnswerThe book of revelation is equally important to All Christians. Revelation means to reveal or make known. Everything there is to know about these end times and what occurs, is written in the book of Revelation. The specifics given in the book of revelation are also mentioned in Daniel , chapter 7. The book of revelation is extremely important to Christians. How else would people know of the great white throne judgement, or the seals, trumpets and vials; the anti- or fake Christ, and return of the true Christ, the two witnesses and the one world or global government?

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Catholic AnswerRevelation is the Word of God, in other words, Revelation is the person of Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, who is the fulfillment of Revelation of God to mankind. No further Revelation is to be given to the world once our Blessed Lord ascended into heaven.

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If you are asking about the book of the Apocalypse, commonly referred to as the Book of Revelation by protestants and modern Catholic Bibles. The Apocalypse has two primary messages. It's surface message was meant for the people of the first centuries as it described the events of the fall of Jerusalem and the persecution in the Roman Empire. It was trying to describe the meaning of these events to give the people courage back then - lessons which we can still use today. The second purpose of the book of the Apocalypse is it is an outline of the Holy Mass. Any person who really reads the book of the Apocalypse and the heavenly liturgy will recognize the Catholic Mass immediately. All of the other modern protestant interpretations of the Apocalypse can be completely discounted as meaningless, and certainly intended neither by the divine author or the human author. The above is know as the preterist interpretation. The futurist, historicist, and idealist views also hold some backing with a few scholars in the Church.

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As for Our Blessed Lord being the fullness of Revelation:

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from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

561 "The whole of Christ's life was a continual teaching: his silences, his miracles, his gestures, his prayer, his love for the people, his special affection for the little and the poor, his acceptance of the total sacrifice on the Cross for the redemption of the world, and his Resurrection are the actualization of his word and the fulfillment of Revelation" (John Paul II, Catechesi tradendae)