Latter-Day transparency: A new age of openness for the LDS church

Published June 21, 2026 6:45am ET



The sacred rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were once as secretive as the Skull and Bones. White-shirted missionaries knocked down doors across the Third World, Book of Mormon in hand, but the logistics of what came later were largely kept a mystery to outsiders.

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