[Urbane_Guerilla]

Odd answer you gave. Not at all logical or responsive. You may be right ... but for someone who asked to be trusted that Stern was not Catholic, you dont seem to have a basis to be trusted.

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.

[Coleus]

Mayors Koch and Dinkins attended mass at St. Pat's on many occasions, does that make them Catholic just by sitting there, I do not think so? Many tourist non-catholics attend mass at St. Pat's daily just to say that they were there.

I've been in a protestant church, a mosque and a synagogue, I am neither of these religions.

I don't understand how one can call somebody a Catholic because they were seen in a Catholic Church. There is no logic in that statement.

[PJ-Comix]

How did the Vietnam bit sound? Sincere, or ironic? How did it sound to you?

Well, Howard has talked how he wiped out whole villages of Viet Cong and then made necklaces out of their ears. Nope. That doesn't sound a bit insincere or a put-on.

And maybe my friend is lying about seeing Stern at Mass, and Stern's supposed comment that he was a practicing Catholic.

Actually your friend may be right. I recently traced Howard's ancestery back to 15th Century Spain. It appears that his ancestors were members of a group known as Maroonos. These were people who pretended to be Jews but in secret they were practicing Catholics.