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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Msgr. John Tracy Ellis on selecting bishops in the US

Good Friday: All you who pass this way, look and see

Links: Catholic identity at universities, meritocracy and the 'working class'

As Francis shows, this Easter triduum there's no room for complacency

Links: Reparations, modern capitalism and the Chinese autocracy

Bring back the assault weapons ban

The bishops and the Equality Act: a train wreck

Links: Passover, Latino voters and Marjorie Taylor Greene on EWTN

Biden goes Trump Lite on immigration

Links: Biden's worrisome immigration policy, executive pay at Starbucks, new Russian history

Catholics behaving badly: MSW has a little list

Want to win Latino voters? Drop the assumptions and organize

Links: Conservative working class myth, visitation at the Vatican, Waldorf-Astoria history

Latino identities, always in the plural, and voting trends

Links: Archbishop Naumann, religion as antidepressant and Yo-Yo Ma

The Latino vote: It doesn't exist, but it will decide the future

Biden's American Rescue Plan is Catholic social doctrine in action

Links: Voter suppression, big money in the church and political preachers

The spiritual insights Francis displayed in Iraq

Links: Crisis at the border; history of Evangelicalism in America; COVID-19 stimulus bill

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