Michael Sean Winters

When I sat down to my computer Monday morning to write about the racial overtones in some of the anti-Obama protesters I had not read Maureen Dowd rsquo s column in the New York Times All weekend I had been wrestling with the question of whether or not to raise the issue of racism and tried to co

The struggle over government funding for Faith-Based organizations is back in the news as critics of such funding are calling on the President to keep a pledge he made during the campaign in a speech in Zanesville Ohio He said If you get a federal grant you can rsquo t use that money to prosely

The grounds of the U S Capitol were the site of a conservative rally on Saturday that drew tens of thousands of protesters to Washington D C The immediate occasion for the protest is the health care reform effort but it quickly became obvious that some of the protesters rsquo complaints were of

The line in the President rsquo s speech that made Congressman Joe Wilson shout You lie was an assertion that illegal immigrants would not be covered by the health care reform proposals making their way through Congress The President was correct and the Congressman was wrong There is explicit l

If eloquence was the only measure that mattered in assessing political speeches President Obama hit a home run last night But the President does not wish to be remembered for giving an outstanding speech to a joint session of Congress He wants to be remembered as the President who finally achiev

In his speech to Congress tonight President Obama has to juggle many objectives some of them seemingly contradictory For example he must continue to reach out to Republicans cite one or two of the ideas they brought to the table that he is endorsing himself and hold out the hope that the event

Sadly this weekend brought more evidence that there are some people in this great nation of ours who have lost their faith in democracy The furor over President Obama rsquo s speech to schoolchildren is ridiculous of course But it is more pernicious than that too The chairman of the Republica

I almost feel sorry for Deal Hudson His world is crashing down or at least that is the impression one garners from reading his post of a few days back about the presence of two princes of the Church at the obsequies for Sen Kennedy and the almost simultaneous resignation of Scranton rsquo s Bisho

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City Kansas and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City Missouri issued a joint pastoral letter on health care reform yesterday The text has caused quite a bit of controversy already because it deviates so starkly from the statements coming from the Bishops rsquo Co

Boston rsquo s Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley usually puts up his weekly blog entry on Friday afternoon But Wednesday night he put up his thoughts about the funeral for Sen Kennedy and the controversy his own participation caused You can read the Cardinal rsquo s reflections here