Putting Our Humanity Above Politics

It’s necessary now, especially after last Tuesday’s election results in New York and elsewhere.

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Pope Francis conducts a Mass on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, December 12, 2020.

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Mexico City — I surrender. I surrender. I surrender. It’s that simple. It’s also one of the most complicated things in the world. We Americans don’t tend to think about surrender as a good thing, but, sometimes, surrender can be about the realization that what we keep doing isn’t working.

I say this in the context of the most recent U.S. elections. One of the first conversations I had in Mexico City, where I am for a Tepeyac Leadership Initiative conference, was about the new mayor of New York. I know that the results of this year’s elections have caused a lot of angst to a lot of people, but allow me to suggest one small but important way in which these results don’t really matter.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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