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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Compassion should transcend ideology. For too many Americans, it doesn't.

Democratic autopsy: The party needs a sense of history, humility and humor

The cost of creating cardinals from far-flung countries

US bishops' overreach in Supreme Court transgender case

What the Democrats got wrong: Scientism and credentialism

Grateful for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral

Diagnosing where Democrats went wrong: Let's start with heresy-hunting

Why are Catholics so obsessed with dead bodies?

Hymnody and synodality in Missouri

Trump hires down, way down

Bishops seek an elusive unity while Trump's shadow threatens their flock

US bishops' conference elections mark defeat for arch-conservatives

Archbishop Broglio gives appalling interview with Arroyo ahead of bishops' meeting

Can the Democrats perform a proper autopsy?

Why Trump won, his populism genius, and what it says about our country

Can we survive another Trump term?

Cry Pax! A column without rules: Presidential victory declared

An election result is a brute fact, a reality check, but not the only political fact

How do we prepare to bind the nation's wounds?

What will US bishops do at their annual plenary?

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