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JFK’s assassination 60 years ago today marked the start of America’s moral disintegration

November 22, 2023

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas Texas on the 22 November 1963 by a communist. A Democrat, Kennedy was the first Catholic president of the United States at a time when the WASP aristocracy still dominated American public life. Kennedy was an ardent

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/11/17

November 23, 2017

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Jackie Kennedy letters to Irish priest withdrawn from planned auction

May 22, 2014

Kennedy wrote the letters to Father Joseph Leonard between 1950 and 1964

Should the contents of Jackie Kennedy’s private letters to a priest have been made public?

May 15, 2014

All Catholics have the right to speak to their pastors in the strictest confidence

Jackie Kennedy was ‘bitter against God’ after death of JFK, letters reveal

May 13, 2014

Letters exchanged by Kennedy and priest to be auctioned in Dublin in June

Film review: Parkland

November 21, 2013

An attempt to depict the assassination of JFK through the eyes of the people who were there amounts to a dull historical re-enactment

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