The following comes from a February 21 posting on the L.A. Observed website.
Caroline Kennedy was in the LA area last week as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series of Southern California. Speaking to full houses in Redondo Beach, Pasadena and Thousand Oaks, she said she was flattered to be part of the series since “everyone knows I’m the least distinguished speaker in my family.”
“….Schools need the support of the entire community,” said the mother of three. “The schools can’t do it alone. How we raise our children is a moral issue.”
She called for a national commitment to “raise our standards. We must make school relevant to kids’ lives and hold politicians accountable. We must show children that we believe in them and are here to help them succeed. It’s up to us to give kids skills and a sense of hope. We all need to feel that we matter, whether we’re 5, 15 or 50.”
Speaking in Pasadena, on the evening of Ash Wednesday, she wore a faint smudge on her forehead. “These are the most indelible ashes I’ve ever gotten,” she said with a smile. “This is my first time to get ashes in California and I can’t believe you just drive by, hop out, get the ashes and get back in the car.”
When asked about her Catholic faith, she said, “It has given me strength and support, but certainly there are things that are difficult, upsetting and sad about the church today.”
On a lighter note, she said she had spent the afternoon with her cousin Maria Shriver. “We think either of us would make a good Pope.”
https://www.laobserved.com/intell/2013/02/caroline_kennedy_says_lets_mak.php
Yes, Caroline, it takes a family to raise a village.
it takes a village to raise an idiot
Caroline, shut up and sit down. You are no Jack Kennedy! He must be rolling over in his grave that he produced a nit wit like you.
What a very Catholic and Christian and intelligent response! She is not a nit wit.
she’s not? what would you call her then? “misguided”? no she’s an idiot alright, certified idiot
Matthew 5:22 has various translations. Some translations have Jesus saying that those who call their brother an idiot are in danger of being called before the Sanhedren (or the council) and those who call their brother a fool are in danger of hell fire.
not everyone honors their mum and pop.
Carolyn Kennedy spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. On the podium and on national TV, she declared herself to be “Catholic” and spoke in favor of abortion.
Now she thinks she would make a good Pope.
Carolyn seems to enjoy publically flaunting her Catholicity while being a heretic and schismatic.
Who is her diocese Bishop? Is he aiding and abeting her sins since he refuses to correct her publicly? Why hasn’t she been publicly excommunicated for her obstinate sins and scandal? (Canon 1399 & 1 Cor 5:11-13)
If she is got ashes, is she still sacriligously receving the Body & Blood of Christ as well (Canon 915)?
Some will only learn the seriousness of their public and obstinate sins if they are publicly excommunicated (ab homine). This way of teaching and discipline may be the only thing that saves their Souls.
Confession, Repentance, and Public Satisfaction for their sin of public scandal, can allow them back into the Church with the permission of their Bishop. This will also stop confusion of others within the Church and out-side the Church.
Bishops do your own jobs. Souls are being lost due to lack of correction of grave sin, and due to Confusion caused by the mortal sin of Scandal.
Carolyn has a lot of money. She can afford a “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition”. Her Priest and her Bishop should suggest that she read it.
Very well said, Mike. As a Catholic man that is faithful to our Holy Father and the magesterium of the church, I too have often wondered where these bishops are and why they themselves have not been reprimanded if they are indeed complicit in these very famous political people’s sins. I have often wondered who the priests are that give our Lord’s real presence to heretics such as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebellius, Kathleen Quinn, etc.
Thankfully neither of these apostates can ever become a Pope…..
“I can’t believe you just drive by, hop out, get the ashes and get back in the car” ~ I can’t believe it either, Caroline.
Juergensen the shock of things….
If either one became Pope we would know for sure that it was the year of the snake. How ignorant they are in their faith and the Church. Very sad that they still call themselves Catholic. I pray that the Holy Spirit will touch them with conversion and a true faith before its too late.
There are a lot of rich Catholics like them…..sad.
“We think”: Not likely.
“This is my first time to get ashes in California and I can’t believe you just drive by, hop out, get the ashes and get back in the car.”
GOOD GRIEF!!!
She must have gone to one of those idiotic priests who think they are “serving the people” by not having a real Mass on Ash Wednesday, but rather just smear ashes on anyone walking in the door — such acts on the part of a priest are in total violation to what the Church asks on Ash Wednesday, and makes a mockery of this first day of Lent.
As for her becoming Pope, lotsa luck with that, my dear…ain’t gonna happen.
At my parish we don’t have a full time pastor or associate. We were able to have two masses on Ash Wednesday, however we may not be able to do so in the future. If that happens, I’ll get ashes with or without a mass. FYI I have a girlfriend who came back to the Church after she was walking by a downtown church on her lunch hour and a priest was out front with ashes.
California Catholic is not endearing itself to it’s supporters by running such a useless article.
You are welcome to move along :-)
I don’t think so as California Catholic needs all the support it can get – read the other posts.
Robert you are correct…..and encouraging the faithful to move along is not very charitable and not helping this news site to grow with loyal faithful Catholics…..I would only push those that want to destroy the church to move along…that is most suitable!
Faux Catholique.
God have mercy on that lost soul!
there are things that are difficult, upsetting and sad about the Kennedy family What else is new!!!!!!!!
Their family ARE not the Only ones…..even in Good Catholic parents, their cross and embarrassment is their one bad seed…why oh why is there always a bad seed even in good families??
Caroline, you and Maria would make great Episcopalians.
MAYBE…they may just sink the ship even more….with more followers
Did you hear about the Millionaire who wants to build another Titanic and call it the Titanic II, what’s wrong with those people? Didn’t enough people sink and went down with that boat for him? Wow some people just never get it or have some common decency.
Poor Souls. Lost in this world of material possessions.
She was probably just making a joke. But it would have been best for her to stay quiet as some will just see her as a show-off and person of privilege.
The fact that she is a heretic and schismatic is a proven fact by her own actions/words that were broadcast world-wide at the Democratic National Convention.
She and her Diocese Bishop will have alot to answer for – promoting abortion (and aiding her by not correcting her extremely public statement).
I wonder how many babies have died by her influence.
But PA isn’t that what they usually do? Not take the faith seriously? It’s all a big joke to them…they are blinded by their worldly views….it’s sad.
Mark from PA ;
These are pretty serious statements for a public person.
There are a lot of mysteries in today’s world. (And I don’t mean “mystery in the sense of “mysterion”—a truth about God and holy things that is incapable of being fully captured by words.) One of the greatest mysteries is why anyone would care a whit about what Caroline Kennedy or Maria Shriver thinks about Catholic theology. Both are truly superbly intelligent; but when it comes to understanding the bases of Catholic theology, they haven’t had the practice.
Most do not care what she personally says or does, except that she is a terrible example of a Catholic, and keeps bringing up her Faith – like Nancy Pelosi.
Caroline sets a horrible example for those who are not properly catechised or not Catholic.
Murder of innocents is not a joke.
Just because she is a lawyer does not make her intelligent. Most of Congress are lawyers and they can’t even balance a budget.
Most of us are more disappointed in her Diocese Bishop for not doing his job.
Sounds to me like she is expressing her lack of faith
Yes that is a great point Father and why on earth are we entertaining an article on them here……it’s the attention that they get that only makes them worst…how are we helping them?
Abecca, so that we can write to her Diocese Bishop with a copy to the US Papal Nuncio.
If we have to nag Bishops to do their own work, so be it. Some will catch on.
Does anyone know the Diocese of Caroline Kennedy?
Don’t be surprised if her family isn’t grooming her as a pro-abortionist for political office.
Why else would she speak in CA?
This is a trial balloon, and her Bishop is not teaching.
Maria might be intelligent but Caroline??? Really Father, have you ever heard her speak? Intelligent is not the correct description. She is a very dull bulb.
Anita
Who will say it? I will say it. Perhaps these women are tired of going through and seeing all the cheating on spouses that went on in that family. “The sins of the father ARE visited on the sons” unless they choose to act otherwise, and it DOES affect the women who see it.
Anne T, and just how does that give her the right to drag the Catholic Church through her pro-abortion mud ?
Betty, It does not, but it sure does make a lot of things more understandable. The mud was already brought in by some of their forefathers.
I remember being every bit as dumb as these two. God is patient.
No thank you Maria and Caroline! No women popes! Ever!
The spiritually blind recommending the spiritually blinded to lead the way. You both have shown such callous and cold hearts that ignore God, science, technology and the fact that abortions stop the beating hearts little boys and little girls.
You have both even carried children and personally felt life in the womb yet you still callously promote the slaughter of the most defenseless. We pray for the day when you both overcome such cruelty of heart. Please reflect and meditate on the fact that you will both be held accountable for leading others away from God.
If these women were Catholic, they morally couldn’t vote for democrats. What a couple of idiots.
Good popes? I think they should send back their baptismal certificates.
Rose Kennedy must be rolling around in her grave!!!
How VERY sad.
Folks, it sounds like too many people thought they were serious. A little self-depricating is useful sometimes. We really neeeeeeeed to lighten uppppppppppp
Bob One, they are not going to reform. I don’t know why anybody would want to be like this, but they choose to be. I use to think they were just misled, but now I see that they seek out the things that confirm them in wrongdoing. When presented with Truth they reject it and invent a fault in those who present it. I hope God does not give up on them, but I have given up on any word of mine being the cause of their repentence. I pray for them to accept Christ as He is, not how they wish He was. I pray that they will follow Christ, instead of expecting Christ to follow them. God bless you and keep you in His Sacred Heart.
They do not have enough sense to not joke about serious stuff like this.
You can lighten up Bob, the Church is going through one of its worst times in history attacked from within and without…I will keep defending from apostates
Yeah right.
“This is my first time to get ashes in California and I can’t believe you just drive by, hop out, get the ashes and get back in the car.” Maybe drive-thru churches would be her style!
“We think either of us would make a good Pope.” Does this illustrate how far the Kennedy clan has strayed from true Catholicism. No prayers for the present Holy Father or prayers for his successor? These two would only be happy with a Wiccan/New Age “Pope Joan”!
These are women who cannot even keep their homes together yet they think they can make good Popes? When was the last time any of them picked up a Rosary?
I’m not 100% sure, but doesn’t Caroline Kennedy live in the New York City Diocese? Wouldn’t she then be under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Dolan?
Well, she and Maria might make “good” popes — just not in the Roman Catholic Church, but in the “wished-for” shadow church of those who read “The National Catholic Reporter.”
It’s no surprise that Caroline’s local ordinary is the Archbishop of New York, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who yukked it up with Obama at the Al Smith dinner held pre-election in 2012. Neither of Dolan’s immediate predecessors would have invited Obama. Christ refused to speak to Herod, but Dolan feels he can socialize with a modern-day Herod — providing him with a great “photo op.”
I agree the Pope remark was facetious and meant to be “all in good fun.”
But a little background in these two. Couple of years ago there was a vacant NY seat in the U.S. Senate,and Caroline wanted to be appointed. But her public presentations were so bad: dull monotone, scripted cliches, lack of originality, that the pro-abort governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, appointed an obscure female pro-abort, Kristin Gillibrand, instead of Caroline. So she may be attempting to hone up her public speaking skills in anticipation of another try for elective or appointive office; aware of how much the voters luuuuv the Kennedys.
As for Shriver, when Arnold was first elected governor of California, first thing he did was to appoint the lesbian former head of NARAL in the Bay area, Susan Kennedy, as his chief of staff. It was reported that this unrelated Kennedy was highly recommended to Arnold by Maria Schriver! Go figure.
Both of these ladies are pathetic. Do not condemn them, pity them instead. And pray for their ultimate enlightenment. The entire ill-fated Kennedy clan has been consumed by hubris and is on its way to oblivion. There are still too many Catholics proud of their “first” Catholic president. Get over it, dear friends. JFK may have been an effective leader, as a Catholic, he was a failure. For the church, he was a disaster. Nixon, from whom he clearly stole the election, was the better man.
Caroline, not Carolyn. The e on the end indicates a long i sound. Caroline is correct about the need to improve literacy. It’s a life long struggle for us Carolines!
Mike, you hit the nail on the head! Yes, PUBLIC EXCOMMUNICATION for open and notorious sinners! And this quotation from the Democratic convention that came out of Caroline K.’s own mouth, the fact that she declared herself “Catholic” and in favor of abortion murder! Priceless! And thanx for citing Canon 1399 and the reference to the passage from I Corinthians. That is also very useful.
I’ve also said more or less the same thing many times in CalCatholic. And, yes, just where IS her Bishop when she goes off and spouts this heretical stuff, apparently forgetting she’s one of the “Catholic” Kennedys, and many very weak and badly formed Catholics will just be scandalized from the bad witness she exhibits.
I just pray that the Holy Spirit will inspire the Cardinals assembled for the coming conclave to give us a MANLY Pope, one NOT P.C., one who’ll imitate the Savior Jesus who in the classic scene from the gospels literally came out swinging, overturning the money tables, actually WHIPPING the dregs abusing the Temple in that scenario. It’s way past time for such an occurence in this day. And in this regard, do see Michael Voris (THE VORTEX) latest video re the possible GAY CARDINAL MAFIA in the Vatican, and the new book by Don Stefani Levi Ariel Gualdo, a Roman priest, entitled “AND SATAN CAME TRIUNE.” FOR SOMETHING VERY OMINOUS MAY BE GOING ON IN THE VATICAN. A housecleaning is much needed, and along the lines of OUR LORD BECOMING PHYSICAL AND CLEANSING THE TEMPLE IN HIS DAY OF THE SCUM. God Bless All, and Holy Mary Immaculate, please pray for us. MARKRITE
I heartily concur with you statement about a manly Pope but don’t hold your breath on that anticipation. At this point we are in dire need of a miracle, big time!
So, we all need to pray on that same note.
First of all, Caroline, to become the pope, you must be a Catholic. Sorry.
And why should we care what these two think?
Hey Kennedy’s the Lutheran church is looking for more members…..applications will be accepted…now if you do jump over there…well they may look at their so called humorous video’s on how they bashed the Catholic church…then if you join them, they may find themselves in the same predicament with members like you, who could go wrong, right? If you leave, they may go bored because they won’t have more reasons to pick on us…it’s you who gives them the ammo to pick the faith, if you leave…they may go bored. Just saying….
This woman is not very bright and has done nothing to distinguish herself. She talks about education all the time but only attended two or three meetings while on her job as “education liaison” or something like that in NYC. Her last interview before she dropped out the NY Senate or Gov race was deplorable. She used “you know” about 100 times in a thirty minute interview. She can hardly string to sentences together. She and her anorexic cuz are Catholic in name only.
Both women would make great popes, but only in special institutions; however, sadly, the Reagan years defunded these places, and so we the public have to put up with such wailing of banshees in the normal course of going about our day to day business.
Caroline is just continuing the tradition of the Kennedy spin on Catholicism.
It is ironic that the world was introduced to Kennedy style Catholicism simultaneously with the advent of Vatican II.
It was Cardinal Joseph Bernardin who promoted the seamless garment theory which indicated that all sins are equal. This was/is the social justice crowd who only thinks of the temporal rather than saving souls.
They put the evil of abortion on the back burner in favor of the Democratic Party and Marxist social justice. This same group inflitrated the USCCB and took out the Altar rails, and standing rather than kneeling when receiving Our Lord.
Today the USCCB gives out an annual Bernardin Award for social work that does not include the required evangelizing. The Award is $1000.
Bernardin’s group got us in this bad habit of Bishops getting publicly involved in politics — supporting only Democrats of course.