Michael Sean Winters

Presidents should be careful not to take credit for positive economic news, lest they be blamed when the bad news comes, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Scholars from Catholic and Orthodox traditions reflected on war's moral and spiritual challenges at a recent conference at Trinity College.

The issue of same-sex marriage is rocking the United Methodist Church, but the Respect for Marriage Act is a fair political compromise, says columnist Michael Sean Winters in this roundup of news.

In asserting that moral norms must be repeated rather than applied, critics of Pope Francis are watering down the very teaching they claim to uphold, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

The Georgia runoff is just the latest example of how marketing campaigns threatens democracy, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.


 

The results in Georgia's runoff should serve as a wake-up call for both parties, but Van Jones is the only Democratic commentator that Michael Sean Winters found notable for his roundup of political reading.

Why are some religious believers willing to fight and die on a hill that is in the rearview mirror for most Americans?

Republican silence after Donald Trump explicitly called for the "termination" of the U.S. Constitution is astonishing and somehow unsurprising, Michael Sean Winters writes in his roundup of political news.

Synodality is not about individual issues, argues columnist Michael Sean Winters, and those who think it is may need to manage their expectations about the process.

Aid to Ukraine, the child tax credit and the debt ceiling are three priorities columnist Michael Sean Winters thinks the lame-duck Congress should address.

There's some hopeful news on the politics beat. Columnist Michael Sean Winters does a round-up.

Theologian Anna Rowlands' new book should be taught in seminaries, used in faith formation classes and read by every Catholic who wants to better understand Catholic social teaching, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Some conservative theologians explain why Pope Francis' restrictions on the Latin Mass are in keeping with the vision of Vatican II. Columnist Michael Sean Winters shares this and other stories.

Anna Rowlands' new book on Catholic social teaching connects it to other disciplines. That's just one of its accomplishments, says Michael Sean Winters in this review.

This Thanksgiving, columnist Michael Sean Winters believes we can learn a lot about gratitude from retired Pope Benedict.

 

Two greats died last week, according to columnist Michael Sean Winters: the first editor of the North American edition of Communio, and an evangelical writer/former presidential speechwriter.

 

The GOP leader faces the more difficult task, says columnist Michael Sean Winters, given the fierce divisions in the Republican caucus.

 

The dominant reality, for the U.S. bishops' conference and for the country, is that more division is one the way, and the crying need for common purpose and shared aspirations seems ever more remote.

The U.S. bishops have sent a clear message of rejection to Pope Francis by selecting Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, as president of the bishops' conference.

The overlap between organized labor and the Latino vote in Arizona and Nevada is another important angle of the midterms that has received too little attention.