Hah!  Pence defending the RCC!  Is this a SNL skit?  
They weren't the values that kept him in the sheepfold as he & wife are now grazing in other greener pastures.
"But Pence also refrained from calling himself a Catholic. Briefly, he noted, his faith journey had taken he and his family "in a different direction."
He must have been out sick when they cover apostasy in catechism class.