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Will an outgoing Gregory keep an incoming promise?

Cardinal Gregory's retirement is imminent. But what of his pledge of transparency?

JD Flynn
Dec 30, 2024
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More than eight years ago, when Donald Trump was still a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, he stood before voters and made a promise.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory during a Dec. 6 panel discussion at the Catholic University of America. Credit: CUA/YouTube.

“I will always tell you the truth,” Trump said in August 2016, at a rally in battlegr…

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