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‘God will have a bit of explaining to do to me if I ever see Him’

Joseph Leonard and Jacqueline Kennedy
Father Joseph Leonard, pen pal of Jacqueline Kennedy

From The Irish Times last week.

“After her husband’s assassination in 1963, Jackie Kennedy confided to Fr Leonard how she became “bitter against God” and struggled to find comfort in her deep Catholic faith.

“I have to think there is a God – or I have no hope of finding Jack again.” She added, with bittersweet humour: “God will have a bit of explaining to do to me if I ever see Him.” …

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