Jackie wanted to die: book

New York Daily News ^ | 9/05/03 | PAUL D. COLFORD

[LPStar]

I'm not a Catholic, but isn't there a problem here with violating the privacy of the confessional? (And since there is no crime or safety issue here, I think this privacy should be respected.)

[LPStar]

I'm not a Catholic, but isn't there a problem here with violating the privacy of the confessional? (And since there is no crime or safety issue here, I think this privacy should be respected.)

[onyx]

150,000 copies of trash. Hope they rot on the shelf. What some people do in pursuit of the almighty buck. Disgusting.

[Bonaparte]

It's not clear from the article that these exchanges took place during confession. McSorley was a family friend, so they were probably just private conversations. Still, baring her confidences to the public is unseemly at best.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Quoting a dead man about a controversial subject is low.

The greed factor..

[billorites]

I can't wait for my copy of Redbook.

[kitkat]

***Still, baring her confidences to the public is unseemly at best.***

And the purpose of the book is to make the Kennedy marriage sound as though it was a happy one. More liberal reinvention of history. Notice that no Kennedy is screaming that this book should not be published as they did when a writer used tapes of Jackie's words when he interviewed her for a book shortly after JFK died.

[rabidralph]

While a young Jesuit teacher in the Philippines, he was captured by the Japanese days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and imprisoned for more than three years.

He became a peace activist at Georgetown.

Lacked the sense to learn from experience. I wouldn't have taken his advice on toilet paper.

[nathanbedford]

What a crock!

In my private conversations with her in the very late 70s she displayed none of this nonesense, only devotion and concern for her children.

She was actually a natural conservative - probably why she could not abide the clan.

[karen999]

McSorley was a creep. It isn't clear that these conversations took place in a confessional situation. If so, McSorley committed a mortal sin and it was something he could have been excommunicated for....i.e. revealing what was said by a particular penitent. Even if it was outside the bounds of a formal confession, to reveal it to outsiders was plain tacky and unethical. I thought his name sounded vaguely familiar, then someone else here linked it with Clinton---then I remembered this McSorley praised Billy-Blow-Job to the skies when he mentioned him in his stupid book called "Peace Eyes." Priests like that we DON'T need.

[TYVets]

Notes from the confessional, by Fr McSorley,,,,,

Are there others?

[SunkenCiv]

Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys by Peter Evans

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[SunkenCiv]

This must be the book mentioned?

Nemesis: The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier

[onyx]

This is an old archived thread.
Do you have a lot of time on your hands? :)

[wingnuts'nbolts]

I do not believe this tripe. I am sure Jackie was the greiving widow, but she was also the very crowded daughter-in-law of Rose who kept her on a tight finincial leash. Jackie did not want to die, she simply wanted all the pain to stop.

Jackie would not abandon her children. Rose was not her friend. Marrying Onasis was logical if you consider freedom was the goal, financial freedom and freedom from the Kennedys. I think she thought she could be first lady of Greece at a time she wasn't thinking too rationally. Jackie was a strong woman, had been a strong girl in a totally dysfunctional upper crust Long Island Family for a long time. She married a man much like her philandering father and knew exactly what she had bought.

My hat off to Jackie and what a sad end for her 1950's story book Camelot family. She worked hard at perfection. Surely the implosion was not her fault.

[SunkenCiv]

I had seen the "Nemesis" title, wished to post it on FR, and prefer to revive existing related threads to posting new ones. Problem?

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[Zeroisanumber]

Jacqueline Kennedy was so racked with loss after her husband's assassination in 1963 that she spoke repeatedly of suicide to her confessor.

Her confessor talked to the press? Dude WTF?!

[kitkat]

I''ve never had any use for Jackie Kennedy. And if this writer is correct about her attitude after her husband's death (which is doubtful), then I think less of her than ever.

Some writers will do anything to make a buck. I'm disgusted.

[kitkat]

***Her confessor talked to the press? Dude WTF?!***

I don't believe he talked as her confessor. Even McSorley had to know that he would have been breaking an ages-old law of the church. The seal of confession is sacrosanct to any Catholic, and even to the law which will not force a priest to reveal what he learns in a confession. I expect this writer is trying for the shock value.