Catholics seek to inform their consciences according to reason and revelation as guided by Church teachings. They believe that by "their faith, aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching authority (magisterium), and obeying it, receives not the mere word of human beings, but truly the word of God." (Vatican II, The Church (1964), §12). It is to the pope and the bishops that this teaching authority is entrusted.
“Catholics seek to inform their consciences according to reason and revelation as guided by Church teachings.”
Being a practicing Catholic since I was a kid, and I’m in my sixties, the Church has had ample opportunity to inform my conscience I would say... The Church “teaches” almost nothing.
Even on issues like abortion, they come up short IMHO. For example, when priests, and even bishops, give Communion to politicians who support abortion, what are they “teaching” the faithful?
That said, it’s the Holy Spirit that has trained my conscience, not the Church. The same Holy Spirit, by the way, that trains the consciences of our brothers and sisters who are not Catholic.