Many of these individuals had one Catholic parent and one Jewish parent.

(It does not matter whether it was the mother or father that was Catholic or Jewish.) Other individuals on this list had two Jewish parents (or only one), but they converted to Catholicism during their life.

I do not understand this since I was not married in the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church respects all marriages and presumes that they are valid.

- data about Jewish intermarriage - The Center for Jewish/Catholic Studies - Salvation is from the Jews - notable Jewish Catholic converts - Review of Below is a list of famous Jewish Catholics (or Catholic Jews, or Hebrew Catholics).

"Jewish Catholics" are simply people that are both Catholic and Jewish.

"We are a minority within a minority, growing very rapidly," says Nahila, a Mexican convert who works at an outreach center.

Related Pages: - Famous Jews - Famous Catholics - Famous Jewish Anglicans - and Jewish Episcopalians Related Links: - Half - with section about Famous Half-Jews - Intermarriage - Why Not?

Their "Jewishness" is merely an ethnicity, a fact of birth.The phrase was coined by Elias Friedman, OCD (1987) who was himself a converted Jew.Hebrew Catholics subscribe to the doctrines of the Catholic faith and are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.The movement is not a sectarian group within the Catholic Church, nor is it a schismatic movement outside it.Islam is most commonly associated with the Middle East and the Arab world, but the simple truth is that 85 percent of the world's Muslims are non-Arab.Where these Jewish holidays and practices do not conflict with Catholic doctrine, they are kept for ethnic reasons, much as Irish Americans might celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.Saint Paul the Apostle is mentioned in passing in The Acts of the Apostles to have observed the Jewish religious holidays (Acts ; Acts 20:6; Acts ; and in 1 Corinthians 16:8).