We do not know whom the American people will choose to lead the country in tomorrow's election. We do know that half the country will love the choice and the other half will hate it. How should we, as Catholics, whose shared baptismal identity is deeper than any partisan affiliation, help unite the country when it is done?
In his Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius famously states, "In order that both he who is giving the Spiritual Exercises, and he who is receiving them, may more help and benefit themselves, let it be presupposed that every good Christian is to be more ready to save his neighbor's proposition than to condemn it." That is, can we place the best possible construction on a vote that differs from our own?
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