Michael Sean Winters

Because Pope Francis is so at ease during meetings with local Jesuits when he travels, he often reveals much about himself and his papacy, says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Congress and the White House have until the end of the month to raise the debt ceiling. Michael Sean Winters says that while neither party is blameless, today's GOP depends on people who are fundamentally irresponsible.

If columnist Michael Sean Winters had his way, colleges and universities would do away with outside graduation speakers altogether.

In the second of Michael Sean Winters' two-part review of The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, he praises the book's treatment of the council itself and its reception.
 

A new comprehensive reference book on the Second Vatican Council is an antidote to sectarian and extreme caricatures of the council, says Michael Sean Winters in the first of a two-part review.

When political structures seem incapable of addressing the anxiety of gun violence, an interfaith service in Louisville gives hope to columnist Michael Sean Winters.

On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, columnist Michael Sean Winters reports on a series of lectures on the dangers of neoliberalism.

The Board of Selectmen in the town of North Brookfield, Massachusetts, granted permission to hold a LGBTQ pride event, but there was a catch: "The event was only permitted so long as organizers removed a drag show performance from the celebration." Boors, such boors.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters is saying a prayer of thanksgiving to the patron saint of journalists after news about two TV broadcasters' exits this week. Good riddance, he says. 

At sundown tomorrow, Israel will begin celebrating its 75th anniversary as an independent nation in the modern era. It is a day to celebrate the only democracy in the region, writes columnist Michael Sean Winters.

In a talk at Sacred Heart University, Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin demonstrated a "formation" in synodality, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is the most "whole life" politician in the U.S., says columnist Michael Sean Winters. Ron DeSantis? Not so much.

The document from the North American continental group is rooted in Vatican II and will help manage expectations for the synod process, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Anyone who thought the politics of abortion would be less fraught after overturning Roe v. Wade wasn't paying attention, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

It's not the first time ethical questions have been raised about Justice Clarence Thomas, who is Catholic. He should know better, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Easter triduum messages highlight that Jesus himself understood the paschal mystery in terms of obedience.

The death of Jesus gives to those of us who claim to follow him a deeper understanding of suffering. It is redemptive, inescapable and redemptive, Michael Sean Winters reflects on Good Friday.

Our Catholic liturgy during the triduum discloses the essence of the faith, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Columnist Michael Sean Winters asks: Why only read about it, when you can participate in it?

Four panelists at a Georgetown event on Catholic social teaching and labor offered hope but also some challenges, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

A heart-tugging piece about medically assisted suicide in The New York Times has columnist Michael Sean Winters concerned about journalistic objectivity.