Ha ha, then your teacher is an idiot as there is no evidence that children of first cousins have any major genetic issues. Maybe ask your teacher if their mother and father were also brother and sister.
Actually an act of civil disobedience involves defying and order and accepting any punishment as a result. When she gives him detention it turns his act of defiance into an act of civil disobedience.
Could well the be Coptic Pope, not the Catholic Pope, no one knows what the Coptic Pope looks like.