Michael Sean Winters

Michael Sean Winters is the author of Left At the Altar: How Democrats Lost The Catholics And How Catholics Can Save The Democrats (Basic Books, 2008). His biography of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right was published by Harper One in January 2012 to critical acclaim. 

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Links: RIP David Schindler and Michael Gerson; same-sex marriage compromise

Pelosi steps back; McCarthy and Jeffries step up

US bishops' decline into irrelevance will continue

Bishops elect anti-Francis archbishop as new president

Links: Festival of Faiths; organized labor and the midterms; a 'boring' governor

What should the bishops be discussing in Baltimore?

3 issues Catholics should follow after midterm elections

Links: Midterms' most offensive ad; the term 'white Christian nationalism'; Veterans Day

No red wave, but midterm elections give both parties much to ponder

Links: 'Voices of Vatican II'; synodal spirituality; a Festival of Faiths

What to watch for in tomorrow's midterm elections

CELAM document confronts the challenges of synodality

Links: Bolsonaro accepts loss in Brazil; Obama fires up Democrats; 'superstar losers'

Time to start from scratch with US bishops' 'Faithful Citizenship' document

Links: Antisemitism and Nostra Aetate; Maryland early voting; post-pandemic cities

Handicapping US bishops' races for president and vice president

JD Vance gives Catholicism a bad name

Links: Climate change action; radicalized white voters; midterm debates

Archbishop Chaput asks, 'Who am I NOT to judge?'

Links: 'Culture of death'; midterms polls; ranked-choice voting

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