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“We must remind our people that a great majority of Catholics including their own families were once themselves immigrants forced to endure the nativist bigotry of earlier generations who spoke about Catholics with the same disparaging vitriol being hurled at the new immigrants of now.”

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Wilton Daniel Gregory

Wilton Daniel Gregory, born on December 7, 1947, is an individual whose profession and category are unknown. more

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