NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters strongly recommends James Davison Hunter's new book: "It fearlessly, and profoundly, makes its case that the problems we face are deeper than the result of the November election."
It is difficult to conceive of the ordeal they faced 80 years ago and of the courage that was required, but they faced it, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
The American people know, or should know, that the jury system is the best device engineered by the human mind to protect the liberties of all against the power of the few.
The idea that the pope has suddenly revealed his hidden bigotry towards gay persons, which seems to be the consensus on social media, is ridiculous. Nothing about this man or his papacy suggests he is bigoted towards anyone.
The "end of regime" sensibility of our political discourse may actually just be an "end of Trump" sensibility, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
We are, it seems, not asking the right questions, argues Sr. Joan Chittister. Which means that we will therefore be without the answers we need to save the entire country.
Children dressed in traditional clothing arrive in procession for a Spanish-language Mass celebrated in honor of Our Lady of Suyapa, patroness of Honduras, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City Feb. 5, 2023. (OSV News/Gregory Shemitz)