The late (not-so-great) Pope John Paul II had a hand in the writing of Gaudium et Spes, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the Gospel of Life. All are flawed by his insistence on the seamless garment position of the late (Cardinal of Century City) Bernardin. This has caused great confusion in the ranks of the prolife movement because the gospel of life muddies the waters by not distinguishing between justifiable homicide and murder.
What the Church needs to adopt is not the “culture of life”, but the “culture of justice”. Anyone with even a smidgeon of a classical liberal education would know that Justice is cardinal among the moral virtues, and the proper light in which to judge these issues.
Being for or against life is meaningless without regard for rendering to each his due (justice).
Under the “culture of justice”, the righteous can be against sins which cry to heaven for vengence, while being for the punishment of those who commit capital crimes and those who commit unjust aggression.
About 99% of the posts on this thread understand this concept, but are entirely confused by what masquerades as official Church teaching.
True happiness consists in living the life of virtue, regardless of the cost.
It discriminates exactly where discrimination is required for the sake of justice.
Indeed it is a lack of discrimiantion which is is the problem with city=target bombing, in that it treats military assets, noncombatant lives, and civilian values as equally disposable. A kind of Seamless Shroud, arguably worse than the most bernardinian and buttery Seamless Sentiment.