Why does the Catholic church have a reputation for being really devout and stuff?

First, why are you attending a church school. If you are atheists you should never be in a church school. The catholic religion is for one things not 2000 years old as it was not invented until and started until about 130CE. It is not even 1900 years old. Another thing, I have talked with various archbishops and and had meals with them, various priests and regular bishops etc, and I know how that church operates. It is very political and it does whatever it has to do to keep its members. But, lately many have left that church, not that they are packing into other religions, they are just leaving religion. The catholic priest, I think are trained to answer the same question in about a dozen ways, depending on how much knowledge the questioner has. But yet it just goes with the flow of things and that is the way most businesses are managed and as religion is a business the catholic church tries to place good managers in leadership places. Remember they are selling false hope, plain hope and wishes so they have to have an answer no matte that the answer would be about of the same use as a bucket with many holes in its bottom. They just use whatever works at the moment.