Michael Sean Winters

Given the polarization in the U.S. bishops' conference, they would be smart to elect a new president and vice president who can help unite the group and the church, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

 

For all the worry about Biden's Catholic bona fides in some circles, Republican candidate J.D. Vance and his brand of Christian nationalism represent a far greater threat to Catholic identity, says Michael Sean Winters.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters takes a look at radicalized voters, midterm debates and other political news.

Archbishop Charles Chaput's recent comments about President Joe Biden and Communion show a profound disrespect for his fellow bishops—and a wrong view of the church, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

As the midterm elections near, columnist Michael Sean Winters is following all the political news.

It would be nice to think that Catholic social teaching could unite a polarized church. Columnist Michael Sean Winters says that's unlikely, at least right now.

Abortion is not the only issue Catholics should consider when voting, but columnist Michael Sean Winters is concerned about how both parties are using it in this year's midterms.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters agrees with Villanova's Massimo Faggioli on how The New York Times portrays Catholicism in its pages.

A wonderful conference at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut is the latest in academic reengagement with Vatican II. Columnist Michael Sean Winters hopes to see more theologians seize that momentum.

The National Review's column on the 60th anniversary of Vatican II is worse than Ross Douthat's, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

A new history of the Catholic Church manages to avoid ideology lives up to its ambitions, according to columnist Michael Sean Winters' review.

 

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has called Vatican II "a failure," but Pope Francis marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of the council with a homily challenging both the left and the right. Columnist Michael Sean Winters weighs in.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters worries that once Elon Musk takes over Twitter, anti-Semitic social media posts will no longer be pulled, as some recent ones by rapper Kanye West recently were.

Abortion, racism and denying election results are all moral issues facing voters this November. But columnist Michael Sean Winters wonders whether rising gas prices will sideline them all.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters on anti-synodal takes from George Weigel and Cardinal Gerhard Müller.

It's not that internal church issues aren't important, argues columnist Michael Sean Winters, but that going to the peripheries will help fix those internal issues.

 

After Hurricane Ian we can learn much from a town that came through relatively unscathed and from Waffle House, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

What does the election of hard-right Giogia Meloni mean for an alliance with right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland? Or with a U.S. led in the again by Donald Trump or a Trump wannabe?

What some progressives demand is not only the right an abortion or some other procedure a Catholic hospital cannot, in conscience, perform. They demand the right to coerce that hospital into performing those procedures.

The Child Tax Credit rescued millions of children from poverty, but as it expires Dems are campaigning on other hot-button issues. That's a mistake, says columnist Michael Sean Winters. Also: Poland goes green.