Michael Sean Winters

Distinctly Catholic: Democrats are right to insist that the full report be released to Congress. But they should not overreach, or act like little children who did not get their way.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Ascension's CEO is resigning from the health care giant; Catholic social teaching revisited; stop bashing Australia's justice system; hate crime count is up; arguing for the inherent goodness of humans

Distinctly Catholic: If I had a gay nephew or niece who was wondering how to reconcile their sexuality with their faith, I would give them a book like this as an intro to the issues they must consider.

Distinctly Catholic: He's charismatic, authentic and upbeat, but can Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke achieve more than his happy-talk optimism, get up to debating speed on policy and become a serious candidate?

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Trump and Deutsche Bank; Nunes sues "Devin Nunes' cow"; buzz around Mayor Buttigieg; Bolsonaro removes rainforest protections.

Distinctly Catholic: Over a bad few days, "we seem caught between the violence and hatred of the New Zealand terrorist and the greed and corruption of the college admissions system."

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: the state of moral theology; packing the courts; ending electoral college in Colorado; what about taxing the rich; Beto O'Rourke is blandly rosy; Israel's people need a more centrist leader

Distinctly Catholic: Francis has made dialogue a leitmotif of his papacy, and so it should not surprise anyone that he is also committed to dialogue in regards to both healing the divisions within the Chinese Church and proclaiming the Gospel in that country.

Distinctly Catholic: Underneath the tiring and tiresome drama of government as entertainment, the administration's decisions are undermining the common good.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Accountable Capitalism Act; unions organizing for the common good; rich folks' legal and illegal ways to game the system.

Distinctly Catholic: Since the cardinals elected him as pope in March 2013, Francis has retrieved a sense of synodality that had been obscured, though never eliminated from the church.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: President Donald Trump bashes Ann Coulter; survey on identity politics; Amazon's sweetheart deal with New York City; what to look for in the Mueller report.

Distinctly Catholic: When Rep. Ilhan Omar made a comment suggesting that American Jews exhibit a "dual loyalty," she was not debating policy, she was trafficking in an anti-Semitic trope with a long history.  

Distinctly Catholic: Michael Cohen's testimony and the House Judiciary Committee's actions focus the nation on the difficult-to-avoid conclusion that President Trump is a crook. So what is to be done?

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Good ideas for public housing; what Watergate tells us to expect today; Hispanic Republicans; Netanyahu indicted.

He's got the money and, for now, he is Democratic frontrunner, but will the opinionated feistiness that made Bernie Sanders seem authentic last time still appeal in this next go-round?

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Liberal Dems' litmus tests will cost them; Rep. Ilhan Omar should be removed from committee; Getting to the cool table in Congress

Distinctly Catholic: John O'Malley's book offers a comprehensive treatment of the events and personalities that would lead to the definition of papal infallibility.

Distinctly Catholic: Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley's book Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church shows how the church we know is still very much shaped by the First Vatican Council. 

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Medicare for all has downsides that need consideration; Sen. Elizabeth Warren says no to ritzy fundraisers; Democrats' demographics are shifting