NCR's Michael Sean Winters praises Bishop W. Shawn McKnight for reversing his decision to ban certain hymns from his diocese, publicly proposing a synodal process as a solution to a local, ecclesial problem.
Sometime this morning at the U.S. bishops' assembly, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services will give his address as president of the conference. It is scary to think what he will say.
The first-ever conference dedicated to the life of Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin centered on the question of how his program can inspire us to "blow the dynamite" of the Gospel.
"The problem now is that Donald Trump has claimed the populist mantle and I am not sure how the Democrats claim it back," says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Trump's win was the culmination of a variety of factors, but the most obvious cause was his ability to present himself as the anti-politician in a country that hates politicians. He is a genius at exploiting populism.
NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters is declaring victory in the presidential race for an unusual candidate, his St. Bernard, Damiana, in this parody column.
This will be the third election in which a few thousand votes in a few states will determine which of two wildly different governing approaches will be given power to enact themselves.
We don't know whom Americans will choose to lead the country in tomorrow's election. Half the U.S. will love the choice; the other half will hate it. How should we, as Catholics, help unite the country when it is done?
