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Baffling and reprehensible

Philip Lawler, Catholic Culture

Monday, June 8, 2020

“I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles,” said Archbishop Wilton Gregory after President Donald Trump visited the St. John Paul II Shrine in Washington. Do you want to know what I find baffling and reprehensible, Archbishop Gregory?

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