Michael Sean Winters

Yesterday I was a guest on Tell Me More with Michel Martin discussing the Vatican s announcement of a forthcoming apostolic constitution aimed at disaffected Anglicans Here is the link and yes it s the right link In the first 30 seconds Michel tells what is coming later in the program a di

To say that former Vice-President Dick Torture is Fine By Me Cheney rsquo s remarks about President Barack Obama rsquo s handling of the war in Afghanistan were pathetic would be to stretch the bounds of human sympathy Mr Cheney has a pension which is as much sympathy as he deserves perhaps mor

It is funny to see conservatives rushing to support Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito who told an Italian-American lawyers rsquo gathering that he is tired of hearing people question the fact that six of the nine current justices on the Supreme Court are Roman Catholic as if there was something wr

I suppose it was more than ten years ago that the waiters at the caf eacute I was managing started telling me about ldquo Raves rdquo These were all-night drug-infested parties where the music was loud and to my Bach-attuned ears obnoxious the incidences of copulation or near-copulation many

The news from Rome about the establishment of special ordinariates for disaffected Anglicans should not be seen as a re-lighting of the fires at Tyburn Indeed Archbishop Nichols of Westminster and Archbishop Rowan of Canterbury held a joint press conference to put the announcement in the context o

After two days on the front page the Pakistan army rsquo s offensive operations in South Waziristan are this morning consigned to page 6A below the fold The editorial decision no doubt made to permit room for a color photo of Redskins rsquo quarterback Jason Campbell being sacked is unfortunat

Poor Rush Limbaugh His buddies kicked him off the team they had assembled to purchase the St Louis Rams Actually poor is one thing that Limbaugh is not at least if we are speaking about money and if you are thinking of buying a professional football team money has ceased being an issue in yo

Readers will recall the name Jack Smith editor of the Catholic Key the diocesan newspaper in Kansas City-St Joseph who launched a vile unsubstantiated and personal attack on Sister Carol Keehan suggesting that her support for health care reform was motivated by money-grubbing acquisitiveness

Olympia Snowe the sole Republican Senator to vote for the health care reform bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee now enjoys a virtual veto over the negotiations Democrats in the Senate and the President himself will likely scuttle their better judgment about any policy disagreements in

Much of the discussion about what to do in Afghanistan occurs in front of the backdrop of the Surge in Iraq and its success Indeed over the weekend Sen John McCain repeated the claim that a new Surge is needed in Afghanistan that half-measures will spell defeat and that t here is no way to wi