Michael Sean Winters

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is simply wrong when he states as he did the other day that decisions about whether or not to cover abortions with federally funded tax dollars should be left to medical experts in the field The issue here is not a medical issue but a political one Will

It would be funny if it wasn rsquo t so sad While senators worry about how to pay for health care reform threatening the best chance at achieving universal coverage in decades forty of them nonetheless voted to keep the F-22 fighter plane in production yesterday Hats off and fiscal kudos to th

Yesterday rsquo s Washington Post had a story about an Episcopalian church in Virginia that is trying to decide whether or not to stay in the Episcopal Church or to break off and join the more conservative Anglican Church in North America Already four dioceses have made the break and dozens of chu

One of the comments on my post about the Sotomayor hearings claims that Trent Lott was run into the ground for far less than Sotomayor s comment about wise Latinas and their judgment I recall when Senator Lott had to resign as Majority Leader because in his effort to sing the praises of his fello

The new Washington Post-ABCNews poll shows that President Obama rsquo s approval ratings are returning to the earth rsquo s atmosphere Put differently the honeymoon is almost over And because the recession Obama inherited is still not over even though the honeymoon is views on the President rsq

It has been a week since the Holy Father received President Obama in audience The following day the Washington Posr carried a picture of the meeting front page and above the fold but only gave the meeting two paragraphs at the ends of a story about the G-8 summit A mere ten days ago Pope Benedi

Confirmation hearings are painful to watch or listen to Ever since Robert Bork rsquo s nomination the aim of the nominee has been to be non-controversial at all costs and the aim of his or her opponents have been to try and find a way to trip the nominee up The entire thing sheds little or no lig

Yesterday we set down a marker for the Democrats about not including abortion services in any federal health insurance option Today let rsquo s applaud House Democrats for figuring out a way to finance the health care reform by taxing the super-rich The tax plan only hits families making more th

The U S Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions turned down an amendment that would have prevented any government health insurance plan from paying for abortion services It is unclear yet whether this is part of a legislative strategy but it is time for Catholic Democrats to lay

One of the things I remember from my days as a theology student at Catholic University is that if the Rev Joseph Komonchak tells me I am wrong about anything having to do with Vatican II I can only plead guilty as charged The same holds for Father Komonchak rsquo s comment on my earlier post in