Okay, I concede. He is as much a Catholic as he was a big hero in 'Nam.
All I know is what I heard Stern say on the air. True, he might have been kidding, but it did not sound at all that way. How did the Vietnam bit sound? Sincere, or ironic? How did it sound to you?
And maybe my friend is lying about seeing Stern at Mass, and Stern's supposed comment that he was a practicing Catholic.