Michael Sean Winters

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Some threats to democracy are less violent than others, but just as damaging; Trump-endorsed candidates quit, tread water; U.S. bishops compliment José Gomez.

Michael Sean Winters: The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a case that could ultimately end the nationwide right to abortion. In the days and weeks ahead, it is my fervent prayer that we can all try and be as sympathetic as possible with those who disagree with us on the issue.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: National Catholic Register insists bishops' Communion document is "teaching document"; Catholic Labor Network hosts panel on economic justice; technology has elevated the art of gerrymandering

Michael Sean Winters: Part 2 of a review of Our Dear-Bought Liberty by Michael Breidenbach. Does his theory about Catholic ideas and experience informing the separation of church and state in the U.S. Constitution work?

Links: Lawyers for Kyle Rittenhouse argued their client acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two people and wounded another two days after a white police officer shot and killed a Black man. It's appalling the hateful Fox News troika lionized the defendant.

Michael Sean Winters: Part 1 of a review of Our Dear-Bought Liberty by Michael Breidenbach, who argues that Catholic experience and thought laid groundwork for the U.S. constitutional separation of church and state.

Michael Sean Winters: The U.S. bishops do not know how to embrace, still less to influence or evangelize, the culture of today.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Good news for Don Bosco Christo Rey High School; bad news for the Democrats and 2022; the words of Michael Flynn vs. James Madison; Bill Donohue has slanted understanding of the clergy sex abuse crisis

Michael Sean Winters: The second day of the U.S. bishops' meeting, which finally included public sessions, continued the somewhat surprising quietude reported the day before, after months of anticipating fireworks.

Reporting from Baltimore on the first day of the U.S. bishops' conference fall assembly, Michael Sean Winters says that a consensus seemed to be emerging that the current version of the document on the Eucharist was a compromise and probably the best they could agree to.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Clarification on Haidt; Notre Dame's John Cavadini outshines the bishops; C.S. Lewis' invitation to intellectual humility; Iceland, where water is wet.

Michael Sean Winters: This week the meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gets underway. If the bishops vote to approve the proposed document on the Eucharist, it will not be because the text is good, but because the document is so mediocre.

Michael Sean Winters: A new survey of Catholic priests shows —unsurprisingly — that younger priests are increasingly more conservative than their forbears. But how can you be "orthodox" when you disapprove of the pope? 

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Happy Veterans Day to those who served, and their families; Gov. Chris Sununu disappoints Republicans; Bishop John Stowe speaks with Commonweal before the U.S. bishops' meeting

Michael Sean Winters: The job of selling the infrastructure bill has only begun. The American people need to see that what the president and the Congress accomplished is going to make a difference in their lives.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: At National Review, Ashley McGuire defends EWTN; Politico looks at Democrats' post-election blame game; throughout the U.S., school board members face threats.

Michael Sean Winters: Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez's dreadful speech attacking social justice movements in our time showed him to be a prophet of doom and a culture warrior, not a pastor.

Michael Sean Winters: Tuesday's election results bode ill for the Democrats as they look toward next year's midterms. The loss in Virginia and near-loss in New Jersey should serve as a wake-up call to the party.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Cardinal Blase Cupich on Traditionis Custodes and the word "reform"; for some, the political is bonkers; examining the TV series "Dirty Jobs."

Michael Sean Winters: When the US bishops gather in Baltimore this month, they will choose whether to pursue the culture war approach some bishops prefer, or to pursue communion with the bishop of Rome. They can't do both.