The Religious Affiliation of
Pyro
St. John Allerdyce

From: "Atheist superheroes?" forum discussion, started 21 September 1999 on the rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe newsgroup website (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe/browse_thread/thread/e8d686f0b20944a6/e46638dbdaa8a219; viewed 22 June 2006):

From: Dwiff
Date: Tues, Sep 21 1999 12:00 am

...Anyone care to post a list of those characters whose spiritual beliefs are on record?

From: David O'Brien
Date: Tues, Sep 21 1999 12:00 am

Pyro: Was in what looked to be a Catholic church at one stage confessing...

From: "Religion/Spirituality" forum discussion, started 29 November 2003 on the ComixFan.com website (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/archive/index.php/t-24121.html; viewed 10 January 2006):

Lia Brown
Feb 7, 2004, 12:43 am

Pyro was implied to be Catholic. (Worst. Catholic. Ever.)

From: "X-Men and Religion" forum discussion, started 21 August 2005 on the ComixFan.com website (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/archive/index.php/t-35318.html; viewed 15 June 2006):

Lia Brown
Aug 23, 2005, 02:25 am

Pyro was strongly implied to be Catholic (or at least of a Catholic background) ...although I guess not a very good one.

From: Mirtika, "Is Superman a Methodist?", posted 15 June 2006 on the Mirathon blog website (http://mirathon.blogspot.com/2006/06/is-superman-methodist.html; viewed 15 June 2006):

Is Superman Jewish, Methodist, or a Christ figure? Newsweek is examining the matter...

So, I offer this nifty assemblage of charts and lists and links on comic book religion found at Adherents.com...

When you're done with the superhero list, peruse the list of supporting (non-superhero) characters and the list of villains. Lex Luthor is, apparently, a Nietzschean atheist, and Pyro is a lapsed Catholic...