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Well... for certain values of "Catholic". It sounds like your ancestors were part of the "Kakure Kirishitan" hidden Church in Japan under the Tokugawa. They started out Catholic, but isolation and being cut off from the rest of the Church led to them having a few... unusual... beliefs...

. . . The Tokugawa shogunate was a very cruel place in which it was the law that members of the Samurai caste could pretty much kill members of lower castes for any time and for any reason. Persecution of Christianity was exceptionally harsh and involved crusifying them, or hanging them...

Traditionally much of his superpowers didn't immediately appear, only developing over time and exposure to the sun. As such, if it was done immediately upon his adoption he would probably be susceptible to it. However, given who created Superman, I'm pretty sure Kryptonians practiced...