[Restorer]

The couple — he is 30, she is 26 — were married in a Catholic ceremony at a Detroit-area church.

Pardon me for not being clear on this, but I thought you had to be Catholic to be married in a Catholic ceremony. Are either or both of them Catholic?

[The Bored One]

I think the wife is Catholic

[LadyDoc]

A lot of Palestinian Christians have fled the country. Indeed, the number of "muslims" in the US is inflated because some assume that every Iraqi/Iranina/Palestinian/Egyptian/Lebanese immigrant are Muslims. Many are Christians, often Orthodox, or Marianite Catholics.

[Sci Fi Guy]

Are either or both of them Catholic?

I believe that one must be, and both must promise to raise their kids as catholics.

[mrustow]

You raised some very interesting issues. I had assumed all along that the finace was Moslem. Now, I 'm slapping myself. Of course, she couldn't be Moslem -- Shapiro's "allies" would have skinned him alive on the Temple Mount for laying hands on their "property" (and you thought slavery had been abolished!).

And yet, I thought that racial socialists all hated Catholicism, as the symbol of white male patriarchy. Maybe in the territories, Shapiro is able to dodge such issues; all he's got to do is publicly curse the Jews five times a day, and everyone loves him.

As for the wife, she apparently labors under a delusion similar to that of her husband: that the Arabs are still going to respect her the morning after.

[sockmonkey]

As to the bride's Catholicity-I thought I read somewhere that She and Shapiro had been living together for years. That is a big no-no for those who wish to be married in the Catholic Church.