"Is the bear a Catholic?" is the quintessential example of the confusing bastard offspring of two separate rhetorical questions, the proud papa question being "Is the Pope Catholic?" and the proud papa's homosexual life partner question being "Do bears shit in the woods?". Both of these are examples of positive rhetoric; for example, it is almost certain the the Pope practices Catholicism, as he is the leader of that particular religion, and it is certain that bears do an exceedingly large portion of their shitting in wooded areas.