Selling off Jackie Kennedy's letters would have come at what cost to the reputation of the priesthood?

Jackie Onassis never wrote an autobiography. She was, in the words of her biographer Sarah Bradford, “a complex woman of many facets” but above all she had a strong “desire for privacy and concealment”. If Jackie never revealed much about her private life, that was her choice. Recently a Catholic college was prevented from selling a cache of over 30 intimately revealing letters between her and a Dublin based Catholic priest at auction by a last-second intervention from her family. They had an estimated value of €1 million. Was her family right to intervene? Jacqueline Bouvier first met Vincentian priest Fr Joseph Leonard CM in 1950, when she and her step-brother made a trip to Ireland. Jackie was 21, and Fr Leonard 73, but they immediately hit it off and beg