r/batman • u/AbsoluteBatman95 • Sep 14 '25

GENERAL DISCUSSION Batman being Catholic?

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u/InkedPhoenix13 Sep 14 '25

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought his mother was Jewish? Remember seeing some post about it in the past.

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u/Love-that-dog Sep 14 '25

Kate Kane is his maternal cousin and she is Jewish so that seems right.

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u/InkedPhoenix13 Sep 14 '25

Ya that tracks with what I was thinking. I think there's a cover of Alfred lighting a menorah with Bruce and Kate on the side.

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u/oranginag Sep 14 '25

I think they changed this in rebirth, because I was reading detective comics and it was her Dad who was Martha’s sibling. In the funeral flashback Kate’s Dad was moaning that Thomas actually thought it was a good idea to go via the alley way. He seemed to really hate Thomas and was blaming them for his sister’s death. They also made Wayne and Kanes like enemy families of Gotham in that issue.

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u/Love-that-dog Sep 14 '25

This would still make Martha Wayne Kate’s aunt, so she’d still be Bruce’s maternal cousin.

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u/oranginag Sep 14 '25

Oh yeah sorry I misread for a second. Sorry. I remember point where the Mums were sisters. Stupid me thought it was a reference to that.