Michael Sean Winters

All last week the horror in Haiti made it well nigh to impossible to notice anything else And sadly as predicted a fifth horseman of the Apocalypse Chaos has come to torment that tormented island Still there was an article by Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco that was very worth

The Holy Father went to the Grand Synagogue yesterday to greet Rome rsquo s Jewish community His predecessor Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to visit a Roman synagogue since apostolic times a symbolic gesture from a master of symbolic gestures Pope Benedict had he chosen not to also make

Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Singatura delivered the homily at the Red Mass in Pheonix Tuesday In his remarks he said of America It is a society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations the fundamental obedience to God rsquo s law which safeguards the common go

On mornings like this only the tears flow easily Thoughts and words grapple with the enormity of a tragedy so devastating Three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse have made their grim way to Haiti ndash War is busy elsewhere ndash and yet already we discern a fifth horseman on t

The controversy over the revelations in the new book Game Change about the 2008 presidential election has so far focused on Sen Harry Reid rsquo s comment about then-Sen Obama rsquo s skin color and his lack of what Reid called a Negro dialect The use of the word Negro as an adjective is no

When writing yesterday rsquo s post I had not yet read the English translation of the Holy Father rsquo s Address to the Curia delivered annually just before Christmas and serving as the ecclesiastical equivalent of the queen rsquo s speech from the throne or president rsquo s state of the union a

The Liturgy Wars are back although I suspect they never really left Yesterday Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel where the altar faces the great mural of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo That is the Pope presided ad orientem or facing away from the people The liturgy in the

I am never sure how nbsp many people read only the on-line version of this magazine and others read only the print magazine If you fall into the former category look up on the mainpage and you will see a beautiful picture of the baldachino in St Peter s in Rome There is also a link to an article

We writers especially we writers who focus on politics appreciate fine speechwriting Peggy Noonan and Rick Hertzberg are two of my favorite former presidential speechwriters And it would be impossible for any wordsmith not to admire President Obama rsquo s speechwriter Jon Favreau who has pen