Michael Sean Winters

American journalist and writer

Michael Sean Winters is an American journalist and writer who covers politics and events in the Roman Catholic Church for the leftwing National Catholic Reporter, where his blog "Distinctly Catholic" can be found.

Bio

"Distinctly Catholic" received the Catholic Press Association award for "Best Individual Blog" multiple times. Winters is also the US correspondent for The Tablet, the London-based international Catholic weekly. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Winters previously served as a visiting fellow at Catholic University's Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, but is no longer connected to the institute.^[1] Prior to that, Winters wrote a daily political blog for America and was the political columnist for The Catholic World. In 2002, National Journal’s Hotline asked George Stephanopoulos, “Who is the most important person in Washington nobody has ever heard of?” His response was, “Michael Sean Winters.”^[2]

Winters has described himself as an "Ella Grasso Democrat," a reference to the pro-labor, pro-life, pro-Israel Governor of Connecticut in the 1970s.^[3] Winters has written in opposition to the agenda of President Donald Trump.^[4]

Works

Winters's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Republic, and the The New York Times Magazine.

Books

Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Democrats^[5]
God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right, HarperCollins (2012)^[6]

References

^ "Michael Sean Winters", US Catholic
^ "Michael Sean Winters". garamondagency.com. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ "Me? A Neo-con? | National Catholic Reporter". www.ncronline.org. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ Winters, Michael Sean (July 3, 2018). "A grim Fourth of July arrives in the Age of Trump". National Catholic Reporter. To my friends in the Republican political and legal establishment who have not stood up to Trump: When the revolution comes, you are on your own, and I will be clamoring not for mercy but for a seat next to the guillotine, where I can do my knitting
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Reviewed in:
- Bonfiglio, Olga (1 September 2008). "Reviving a 'Common Good' Partnership". America. Vol. 99, no. 5. pp. 23–24. ISSN 0002-7049.
- Lowenstein, Roger (September 2008). "The Democrats' Lost Tribe". Conde Nast Portfolio. Vol. 2, no. 9. p. 80. ISSN 1936-0916. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
- Nixon, C. Robert (1 June 2008). "Arts & Humanities". Library Journal. Vol. 133, no. 10. p. 102. ISSN 0363-0277.
- "Review: Nonfiction". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 255, no. 17. 28 April 2008. pp. 121–122. ISSN 0000-0019.
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Reviewed in:
- Coburn, Carol K. (19 November 2012). "A Media Master". America. Vol. 207, no. 15. pp. 33–34. ISSN 0002-7049.
- Feuerherd, Ben (27 April – 10 May 2012). "Biography examines Falwell's legacy". National Catholic Reporter. Vol. 48, no. 14. pp. 1a, 3a. ISSN 0027-8939.
- "God's Right Hand". Kirkus Reviews. Vol. 79, no. 12. 15 November 2011. pp. 2107–2108. ISSN 1948-7428.
- Olson, Ray (15 November 2011). "Religion Stars". Booklist. Vol. 108, no. 6. p. 20. ISSN 0006-7385.
- "Review: Nonfiction". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 259, no. 2. 9 January 2012. p. 49. ISSN 0000-0019.
- Riley, Naomi Schaefer (June 2012). "Reverend Right". Commentary. Vol. 133, no. 6. pp. 65–67. ISSN 0010-2601.
- Swartz, David R. (2012). "Review: God's Right Hand". Journal of Southern Religion. 14. ISSN 1094-5253.