Foxy,
Make up your mind, either ‘ … and marriage into other faiths was out of the question.” and “…in a mixed marriage Catholics have stricter rules”
You also said that Catholics were not allowed to associate with persons of other religions, which statement shews an utter lack of knowledge of Catholicism and a rather deficient idea of how society works.
My maternal grandparents marriage in the Anglican church was recognised as legitimate by the Catholic Church and grandmother raised her daughters as Catholics.
The Catholic to Presbyterian marriages took place in Catholic churches.

Is Mise,

I was talking about some small aspects of my experiences
growing up.

My father was raised by the Jesuits. And
we had/have very close connections with the Catholic
Church. Priests were regular visitors to our home.
They still are.

Dear Bazz,

I don't know enough about how Muslims practice their
religion. I imagine they are not one homogenous
group who do things in exactly the same way because
they come from different countries, cultures, have
different languages and so on.

If you thin you know better - well lets leave it there.

Foxy
Small aspects?

Didn’t come over that way at all, you can come out of the corner, a bit of turps will take care of the footprints.

Is Mise,

You're going to need more than turps to fix your
persona. Your proclivity for guns now makes perfect
sense.

Issy,

Irish Catholics and Scottish Presbyterians, you don't say!

I was at your house the night Patrick O'Leary yelled across the table after one too many wiskeys at James MacDougall ;...."Jimmy...William Wallace was a liar, thief and a cowered!...and the Holy Father in Rome agrees!"

I believe 16 of your relatives ended up in hospital that night.