Posted on 02/12/2010 10:25:01 AM PST by BigChiefLtd
Not the same Joe Kennedy son of Bobby . Maybe his son making Ted his great uncle.
Joseph III is the son of Joseph II, son of RFK. III’s mother is Sheila Rauch, II’s first wife, who objected to II’s annulment attempts.
IIRC, this Joe was from the annulled [later voided] marriage of Joe & Shelia
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/21/vatican_reverses_kennedy_ruling/
Sheila Rauch Kennedy fought the annulment for 10 years.
By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | June 21, 2007
The former wife of Joseph P. Kennedy II has won a decade-old appeal to the Vatican to reverse the decision that voided their 12-year marriage in the eyes of the church.
Sheila Rauch Kennedy, whose book about the congressman’s aggressive pursuit of the annulment helped to end his political career, said yesterday that she feels vindicated by the reversal, which means that the Roman Catholic Church considers the couple still married — despite the civil dissolution of their marriage 16 years ago. In 1993, Kennedy was remarried, to his former aide, Beth Kelly, in a civil ceremony.
“When you try to defend your marriage, the army that comes after you is pretty brutal,” Rauch Kennedy said yesterday from her Cambridge home. “You’re accused of being a vindictive ex-wife, an alcoholic bigot, an idiot.”
Rauch Kennedy said she learned of the decision in May, when she was notified by the Archdiocese of Boston. She has since learned that the ruling, which had to be translated from Latin, had actually come down in 2005.
“The [annulment] process was very dishonest and it was a process in which I was being bullied,” said Rauch Kennedy, referring to her treatment by the church. “But I was very lucky. I had help from outside of the Archdiocese. Otherwise I wouldn’t have known about appealing to Rome and how to do it. I feel for the people who don’t get help.”
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Yeah, knew it wasn’t the Joe K who was in Congress, the one with the squeaky voice ... so it’s HIS son? Is he also the son of the Kennedy wife who wrote the devastating book about the ‘annulment’ of her marriage after X years and Y kids ? I thought that was Joe II’s wife? (so easily confused)
thanks. I think I’m getting the relationships straight now (for whatever it’s worth).
You need a flow chart with these people. LOL!
Sheila: ‘Kennedy wives don’t talk’
Is she repentant? Not a bit, she says. “My kids are juniors in high school. Even in the best of circumstances they don’t need their father running for higher office. People in Boston act like Joe’s been exiled to Siberia, but really he’s in a perfectly good situation.” He’ll run for Congress again, she says, and will be perfectly placed to run for the Senate when his uncle Teddy retires. As far as the book is concerned, he got off lightly. “He knows what I could say,” she says with an almost wicked laugh. When I remind her that she did say a number of unkind things about him, she shrugs her shoulders and says, “I think Joe would think he was a wimp if someone told him he was a good listener. This is a man who has described himself as the family pitbull.”
After more than 20 years of being asked to put her personal life to one side in the name of the Kennedy political machine, she’s had it. This issue was important, too. “There was a whole conspiracy of silence. I was being told, ‘Kennedy wives don’t talk’, but they were having it both ways. First Joe’s saying we were never married, and then he’s saying I’m supposed to be quiet because I was once a Kennedy wife! So, I had to speak. I wasn’t going to tell all, but I was going to speak in an appropriate and responsible way.”
Unless you’re around 65 you have never seen a day when a Kennedy wasn’t in some office in Washington, D.C. That ends next January.
Jeeze, I hadn’t thought of it that way... but imagine Patrick drunk as a skunk... depending on Ted to drive him home.
Ooo... that’s baaaaad. CLEVER, but baaaad. TRUE, but baaaad. ACCURATE, but baa... aw the hell with it: NICE WORK!
Amen to that!
I don’t anyone who’s not terrified of getting crosswise with those guys.
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