{"id":821,"date":"2009-04-07T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/ambassador-caroline-kennedy-updated.html"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T10:13:00","slug":"ambassador-caroline-kennedy-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/ambassador-caroline-kennedy-updated.html","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Caroline Kennedy? — UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her name has been floated before for this position — and she’s also been mentioned as a contender to the serve at the Court of St. James, as her grandfather did — but there seems to be new life<\/a> in this old story: <\/p>\n

<\/a>A longtime John Kerry supporter is about to land the prized position of U.S. ambassador to Italy, and Caroline Kennedy may join him nearby as ambassador to the Vatican, an Italian news magazine has claimed.<\/p>\n

In an April 2 article in Panorama, journalist Carlo Rossella predicted that 60-year-old David Thorne, a donor to the Obama campaign and brother-in-law of former presidential candidate John Kerry, will be given the post, per the request of Kerry himself.<\/p>\n

And in a report that will drop like a bombshell among Vatican watchers, Rosella also asserted that Caroline Kennedy \u2013 her own hopes to rise to the U.S. Senate dashed for now \u2013 has been suggested as the Obama administration\u2019s ambassador to the Holy See.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an ironic tangle of State Department, campaign and even marriage connections that only adds fuel to speculation over who will represent the United States in two of the State Department\u2019s most high-profile posts.<\/p>\n

Thorne, a founder of Adviser Investments, is a longtime close friend of Kerry, having attended college and served in the Vietnam War with the now-Massachusetts senator. Even after Kerry divorced Thorne\u2019s sister in 1988, the two men remained close.<\/p>\n

Describing him as \u201celegant,\u201d and \u201cvery sociable,\u201d Rosella wrote that, like Kerry, Thorne \u201chas always loved \u2018beautiful people,\u2019 the \u2018bella vita\u2019, European taste.\u201d <\/p>\n

After being passed over in favor of Sen. Hillary Clinton for the position of Secretary of State, Rosella wrote, Kerry asked two favors of President Obama: first, to name Thorne as the State Department\u2019s ambassador in Rome. Second, Kerry asked that Kennedy \u2013 herself aspiring to Clinton\u2019s vacated Senate seat \u2013 be made the administration\u2019s Vatican ambassador.<\/p>\n

After a short and heavily-criticized attempt to win the appointment to the Senate, Kennedy withdrew her name \u201cfor personal reasons\u201d from New York Governor David Patterson\u2019s consideration.<\/p>\n

At the time, Kerry said while he was sorry she withdrew, he supported her decision and had been in contact with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she really was put in a very difficult position, almost impossible one,\u201d Kerry said, \u201cbut she\u2019ll go on to do terrific things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, whether Kerry was alluding to a State Department post at Vatican City is up for speculation, and Rosella did not offer further details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> This report<\/a> in the Washington Times indicates several candidates have already been rejected by the Vatican. This could get interesting. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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