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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Remembering those who sacrificed at a time of national peril

US bishops ignore Vatican letter on Communion in an astonishing way

Links: Biden-Floyd family meeting; overtime for farmworkers; Lesley Stahl's journalism

Can the US church manage the synodal path?

Links: 'Big Lie'-believing election candidates; Koch on pandemic eviction prohibitions

Israel's critics should hold Hamas accountable, too

Scandalized by 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' Catholicism

Links: Our mental health crisis; partisan politics; investigation into Trump organization

Latino theologians get 'in the ministerial trenches'

Links: Jewish fertility rates; pre-Trump GOP; 'Jeopardy!' controversy

There are moral issues beyond the disincentive to work

Links: Liz Cheney's ouster, getting vehicles off the road, and moo-ving music

Conservative Catholic media meet Ladaria letter with denial

Links: No required vaccines at CUA and debates about 'tax and spend'

Vatican throws wet blanket on U.S. bishops who want to deny Biden Communion

What if prominent Catholics guest-hosted 'Jeopardy!'?

The GOP, the big lie and the Avignon papacy

Links: Corporations and politics; reuniting families; the 'big lie' continues

Catholics behaving badly: Part 2

Links: Denying election results; Giuliani's legal troubles; GOP support growing in Texas

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