Faith in the Community

Immediately after Joe Biden had won the United States Presidential election, Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles issued a statement on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In it he made two points of general importance for any country or community where a democratic election has been held.

The first… “Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good.”

And the second… “Democracy requires that all of us conduct ourselves as people of virtue and self discipline. It requires that we respect the free expression of opinions and that we treat one another with charity and civility, even as we might disagree deeply in our debates on matters of law and public policy”.

One of the great difficulties when debates and disagreements are aired on social media is that the desire to score a point can lead us to say things in cyberspace that we would not dream of saying if the person we were addressing were sitting just across the coffee table from us. In all our debates, political and otherwise this is sound counsel.

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