Did you go to a catholic school? I did. It took a while to get the cold heartedness of these people out of my system again.

Besides, since you are talking about valuing life, whenever I think about the catholic church, their inability to deal with their own cases of child molestation comes to mind first. So swinging the moral sword from the position of a church which still molests children without consequendces is probably a bit, hm, brave to say the least.