Robert Kennedy Jr insists he is not responsible for wife Mary’s suicide

Delivering a eulogy to his estranged wife Mary, Mr Kennedy, the son of the assassinated attorney-general Robert F Kennedy and nephew of President John F Kennedy, spoke of her troubled life and admitted that she resented him for asking her to give up her career to have children.

Mary Richardson Kennedy’s family went to court on Friday to try to stop her being interred in a Kennedy family plot in Centerville, Massachusetts.

But the burial went ahead following a funeral service at St Patrick’s Church in Bedford, New York, attended by stars including the actors Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon and Larry David, and the tennis champion John McEnroe.

Representatives from the Kennedy clan included Ethel Kennedy, Mr Kennedy’s mother and RFK’s widow, Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy’s daughter, and Maria Shriver, another cousin, who is married but separated from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor turned California governor.

In his tearful eulogy, twice-married Mr Kennedy told mourners how his troubled wife had telephoned him the day before she was found hanging from a barn in the home they once shared in upstate New York.

He said: “The day before she died, she called me and said, 'You know me better than anyone in the world’. She said, 'I was such a good girl’. I said, 'I know you are and you still are’. She really fought so hard. She had these demons, and she didn’t deserve it. I know I did everything I could to help her.”

Mrs Kennedy’s friends have suggested that she was distraught at the separation from her husband, who filed for divorce in 2010 and is now in a relationship with Cheryl Hines, the star of the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm, but had not completed the process.

Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown:

“What does an annulment cost?
For residents of this diocese there is no formal charge, although an anonymous donation is suggested at the completion of the process. For those outside the diocese, a fee of $350 is required to begin the process. However, no one need ever put off beginning the process due to a lack of money.”

Are you starting to get the picture there, sport?

You call me a liar, when I reject that, you say, you have no reason to believe I am not a liar , then you post the fees, that you said were free. Then you say that a fee of $750 is expected to be paid in Arlington, and that it costs the Church $1200 for each case. I submit that the Catholic Church is not known for losing money and you don’t know what you are talking about.

Yes Sport: I get the picture. By the way are you voting for Obama this year?

You wrote:

“You call me a liar, when I reject that, you say, you have no reason to believe I am not a liar , then you post the fees, that you said were free.”

You’re lying. I NEVER said they were free. I said:

“If he was poverty stricken, he wouldn’t have to pay a dime.”

I also said:

” I do know people who got them for free...people... who could not possibly pay a dime. Not having a cent, does nothing to impede the process.”

And I said:

“She didn’t pay a dime for the annulment. She paid for the Tribunal’s costs.”

And:

“The only money involved in annulments is the fee for the Tribunal’s work. Those fees don’t even cover the cost of the work, nor are they even required as the poor do not have to pay them.”

Everything I said is true - absolutely accurate!

“Then you say that a fee of $750 is expected to be paid in Arlington, and that it costs the Church $1200 for each case. I submit that the Catholic Church is not known for losing money and you don’t know what you are talking about.”

Then you’re an idiot. Catholic schools lose money every day. So do Catholic hospitals. Every single annulment case - every single one - is a money loser for the Church. When you have half a dozen or more professionals, with doctorates and licentiates, using phones, filing for official reports from the county, state, police, other agencies, using office space, computers, fax machines, photocopiers, travelling for interviews, paying for rent for their offices, gas for their cars, etc. - that all costs money. Remember, if only one professional somehow worked on the case for 24 hours of office time, that comes to (using $1250 as a number) $52 an hour. That’s cheap, but it still costs money.

“Yes Sport: I get the picture. By the way are you voting for Obama this year?”

You still don’t get the picture. And I have never voted for a Democrat in my life, ever. Go ahead and lie again. It’s what you do.

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