Not the same Joe Kennedy son of Bobby . Maybe his son making Ted his great uncle.
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)