Say what? Works are NOT faith. There are plenty of folks who do good works and have faith only in those works. They put their faith in those works. Thats not the faith that saves.
Its the faith in Jesus that saves. The works are a result of faith.
Heres a perfect example of someone who did good works who did not have faith in Jesus alone for salvation.
"If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept" (from Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work , by Desmond Doig, p. 156, as quoted by Dave Hunt, Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist , p. 149).
She did many wonderful works but it is evidenced by what she said that she did not believe Jesus to be the only way to salvation.
The idea that the works are somehow a byproduct of faith is unscriptural and plain false. Obedience to the commandment is already works; for example if Abraham believed that God would give him inheritance the other side of the desert, but then did not go: that would be an example of dead faith, such as the Protestant faith. Catholic faith is, well, catholic: it is a single state of grace in intellectual assent, emotional attachment to Christ and His saints, obedience to His Word and works of love toward God and His children.