Michael Sean Winters

Washington rsquo s Archbishop Donald Wuerl is confronting the City Council rsquo s push to legalize same-sex marriage He sent a letter to his clergy re-iterating the Church rsquo s position on the uniqueness and importance of traditional marriage gave a set of interviews and is joining hands with

George Will has a provocative article in this morning rsquo s Washington Post in which he says it is time to get out of Afghanistan The article is a response to the arrival in Washington of a report from Gen Stanley McChrystal sent to Afghanistan by President Obama to assess the situation and mak

The Church is always her best at a funeral a priest once said to me and those true words echoed in my memory as I watched the funeral of Sen Ted Kennedy The Catholic funeral Mass is so beautiful not least because it is so familiar not really different from other Masses In the face of grief

Watching the funeral cortege of Sen Edward M Kennedy wind its way up Route 6 then Route 3 and finally through the streets of Boston I could not help thinking that eloquence of the common man when it manifests itself far outstrips any words we writers have to offer Along the highway still an

My father is a very calm imperturbable man We speak just about every morning and his voice only rises when reporting that the Red Sox lost to the Yankees He rarely calls in the evening but he did so last night He had gone to Mass at St Joseph rsquo s Living Center in Windham Connecticut the

Cardinal Sean O Malley OFM Cap the Archbishop of Boston has issued the following statement upon the death of Senator Ted Kennedy Today we mourn the passing of Senator Edward M Kennedy and we extend our heartfelt prayers and sincere condolences to his wife Victoria and their children Kara Ed

The phone rang at 6 03 a m My editors at the Tablet wanted to know if I could write something quickly about the legacy of Sen Ted Kennedy who died this morning The request is not that different from being asked to give a synopsis of World War II or the Pauline Epistles in a couple of hours and

The White House has decided to keep Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and the Justice Department has decided to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that the CIA broke the law by torturing prisoners The special prosecutor John Durham has served both Republican and Democratic Attorneys Gen

Politico com has a great article today detailing some of the more outrageous comments made by members of Congress this August Neither party has a monopoly on foolishness nor even on Nazi-metaphors which are worse than foolish Political rhetoric can and should get heated at times and the image of

Who knew the Scots placed such a high value on compassion The land of Henry Knox champion of Calvinism and Father of Presbyterianism of forbidding landscapes and cold castles Scotland released Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm jetliner over L