Michael Sean Winters

Michael Sean Winters is an American journalist and writer who covers politics and events in the Roman Catholic Church for the 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]

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. Winters has written in opposition to the agenda of President Donald Trump.[2]

Works

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

Books
  • Left At the Altar: How Democrats Lost The Catholics And How Catholics Can Save The Democrats
  • God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right, Harper Collins (2012)

Reviews
  • Farrelly, Maura Jane. “Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity,”, NCR December 27, 2012
  • Farrelly, Maura Jane. Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860, NCR April 27, 2018

References
  1. "Michael Sean Winters", US Catholic
  2. 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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