This idea of saying she's excommunicated, that she's a public sinnerwhat a lot of nonsense. Only God knows who is a sinner and who is not. Why can't she marry whomever she wants?
The speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or punditindeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church andas it turned out last weekforemost a friend in need.
The cardinal made his defense of Jackie at a meeting of Boston's Caritas Guild, composed of the city's licensed beverage executives, and...