[Merry]

I've just read back part of this thread but not all of it, so apologies if this has been said before (I would think most things have been said before!) - I got to the part where it was suggested, because of the DNA info, his father was probably Italian and could the fact that Italians would generally be Catholic be an issue? Wouldn't it be more likely that a Catholic family might not want one of their offspring in a relationship with a non-Catholic than the other way round? So might it be that his mother was the (Catholic) Italian and her family refused to accept the relationship/child?