As I said before, he was apparently trained by the French -- he may be a Catholic priest, but I doubt if he's real, at least in the sense we know the word.
I have a friend who is reading Barbara Bush's memoirs, and she tells the story of a dinner at which Mitterand's wife was arguing strenuously with someone at the table. Mrs. Bush found out later that the discussion was about religion, and Mrs. Mitterand was arguing, scornfully, that the more educated/sophisticated a society becomes, the less they need religion. That about sums up French Catholicism.