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Taylor uses the Catholic Church as an example of the kind of attachment or identity that forms one's values. He refers to how identifying yourself as a Catholic means that you have a worldview that includes certain specific values. Catholicism as a religion and a philosophy is inherently interested and focused upon values, values which derive directly from its truth. It means, for example, that Catholicism intimately asserts something about the value of individual dignity. For example, as a value, racism is an impossible position for a Catholic. It also says things about the value of life, again based on inherent Catholic truth, e.g., support for abortion is an impossible position for a Catholic. For a Catholic and for Catholicism, values are our core business. That can be a problem in a world that does not like values. We live in a world that not only dislikes Catholic values, it dislikes any values. It is essentially suspicious of values as a means of restraining and conducting human behaviour. Effectively the world argues there is no such thing as an objectively-based value, in fact, no such thing as values at all. Those arguments are directed at Catholicism and the Catholic Church with venom. Our opposition to abortion is said by a lot of the non-catholic critics to be not really based on our understanding of the value and sanctity of human life; they say it is based on some outdated cultural constraint. Our opposition to euthanasia is criticized in the same way. Those arguments are directed at the Catholic Church for precisely the reason that the Catholic Church is one of the very few organizations in society that still believes in and strongly asserts the notion of true values. For Taylor, to identify with being Catholic means that you will carry and claim as your own, the values of the church. This is part of your moral stance.