Does human life have INHERENT value?

[Anomalocaris]

And which was it, absolute self defense, or justifiable war, that made it okay for the Catholic Church to try it's very own hand in burning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of witches and heretics when the Catholic Church actually had the power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences?

As to the last few popes, it was very noble of those holy fathers to abhor killing by others a coupLe of hundred years AFTER progress of humanity through the Age of Enlightenment, which the Catholic Church abhorred also,  had in most places deprived the Catholic Church of its traditional power to call up holy wars and pronounce death sentences.

It was never ok for those people to do that. They acted wrongly, and against Catholic doctrine.

Uh, really?

 It WAS the very same Catholic Church under the numerous infallible predecessors of the current pope that actually did it.  

What the Catholic Church DID in BURNING people at the stake when it could, would seem to speak infinitely louder than the WORDS it SPEAKS now when it couldn't, about what doctrine it Really would actually FOLLOW should it ever regain the power to really do as it pleased, unencumbered by such human progress as has taken place since the 1500s inspite of the catholic church's most strenuous and disgraceful efforts to suppress them, would it not?