I voted today. Standing in the long line snaking all the way around the Franklin County, Ohio Board of Elections felt like being inside some strange but essential internal organ of our democracy. As I walked lazily through the line’s many twists and turns for nearly an hour, masked and six feet from the next voter, I reminded myself that standing in this line to cast my ballot is likely the most important act of my secular life in a democracy.
But voting is also a fundamentally Catholic and even liturgical thing to do.
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