Jackie Kennedy disliked Catholics, said they always felt persecuted

Stay with us, Stiofain, we have also been noted the amount of pure hatred that comes out when no-one has to be identified. Cowardice in the time of Technology. As I have been listening to the Naming of the Names behind me from Ground Zero during this 10th Anniversary, it is to those who are brave that we stay in the open. Stay with us, Stiofain, the good outweights the bad. They are not as badly stupid as the commenters on Yahoo if I may say. I do have a theory: the louder the shouter, the lower the IQ!

I can't believe you believe that wanakbranan. Surely another conspiracy story, Israel always seems to be the scapegoat, even America as history has pointed out, that's what I would call persecution and as Catholics, we take some beating on that point and have done so for centuries not only against Jews but Muslims too.

Nothing new about the hatred exposed by commenters on this site or many others, Stiofain. They honestly can't understand why everyone doesn't hold the same low opinion of other races, political beliefs and creeds that they do, especially those on the right-wing side of the aisle. It's vile...but this is the internet and those people get to speak their filth without fear of honest retribution so off they go. And God help you if you disagree with one of them; they turn into the worst sort of little fascists you can imagine.

Brian O'Connor the head coach of the University of Virginia baseball team...a good man. This Brian O'Connor...a horses ass!

Stiofain, yes, they are mostly American and their bigotry is not limited to anti-Semitism. They wouldn't know a Connolly/Tone Irish Republican from a whirling dervish. Don't let it drive you away. I've seen too many leave in disgust.

S.Connolly: maybe she surrounded herself with Jews, rich or otherwise, because they couldn't be absolved of anything they did wrong though the confessional. We still see that today.

I've only been a been a member of Irish Central for less then two weeks and I can't believe the amount of anti-semitic remarks (this time S. connolly). There must be few Irish Republicans, of the old school (Connolly/Tone)that are members.

@Irishphotograph, You are ranting on in a illiterate, fundamentalist, protestant style about "false christian church" etc. Christ passed the keys of authority to his St Peter(Matthew 16:18) and this lineage has been continued down to the present day. Can that be said about the sect that you belong to? I am surprised that Jackie Kennedy would refer to Irish-American Catholics in such an offhand manner as she had clear Irish links on her maternal side. Possibly she thought that devout adherents were particularly hyper-sensitive with regards to perceived hurts or people in their company who were not Catholic.

The Irish in the US, as Niamh Flanagan wrote, "still wear the weights of their ancestors many generations later" (Quoted by Tom Hayden in "Irish on the Inside"). Jackie saw that, just as my Irish immigrant ancestors saw American Protestants still wearing the weights of their ancestor Brits. My Irish ancestors feared Protestants because Protestants had persecuted them. That's history, but it doesn't need to be the future unless we refuse to leave it in the past. Hayden also quotes Jackie's poem to JFK: "But he was part of an alien breed / Of a breed that had laughed on Irish hills / And heard the voices in Irish rills / The lilt of the green land danced in his blood / Tara, Killarney, a magical flood...." (p. 87) It wasn't the Boston Yankee in JFK that Jackie loved; it was the Irish in him.

suspicious of Catholics...so she surrounded herself with Jews...wealthy ones and married ones. Maybe because they had the best diamonds, etc., which she surely coveted.

surprised Jackie was not aware of the ghetto mentality of ethnic Catholics in general and Irish Catholics in particular.

Etighe Nor for London, Brussels or ROME!... Roman rule in my beloved Ireland must come to an END. It is a false Christian church that promotes dead religion. Where Irish Catholics haven't a clue of the Christian faith. Ireland does not need Rome in Irish Affairs. Ireland does not need external influences both political & spiritual coming from other nations. And this RCC the 1 true church is a LIE from Satan.

Probably not true since she was Catholic hersself from French stock

Understandable, Jackie's French and didn't have relatives who were locked by the British or harassed at Princeton because they were Catholic. The French have their own issues by the way.

My reading of the article is that Jackie disliked those Catholics who felt persecuted. I agree with Jackie that Catholics who feel persecuted are difficult to tolerate. The headline writer is either incapable of reading or decided to avoid reading the article. Disgusted with the Irish Voice - no quality control on headline writers!