Michael Sean Winters

It is easy enough to understand how some pastors tend to ignore issues of poverty health care and peace in their preaching if they do not follow the common lectionary but instead choose at will the biblical text on which to preach The concern for personal holiness with a special focus on the ho

Amidst all the fevered specualtion about Pope Benedict XVI naming a new archbishop of New York this is hilarious

President Barack Obama rsquo s stimulus plan passed the House of Representatives last week yet most commentators viewed this transparent victory as something akin to a defeat because no Republicans supported the bill despite the fact that the President had made such a concerted effort to reach out

One of the central themes of Pope Benedict rsquo s pontificate has been that Truth – with a capital T ndash makes claims upon us that our Western culture has relativized the Truth to meet its decadent desires and that the Church must be engaged in the task of returning Truth to its central pla

I have never met Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner nor Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate Tom Daschle I am sure both are capable men although the claims for Geithner rsquo s unique capabilities struck me as a bit overblown But I am disappointed that after two years campai

It is nbsp distressing to find that The New Republic a magazine for which I have written over the years has given Damon Linker the author of Theocons a blog on their website I was even more distressed to find what I can only characterize as bigotry in one of his first postings Linker writes ab

Estupido What else to call GOP opposition in the Senate to the State Children rsquo s Health Insurance Program SCHIP expanding the program to include 4 million more children all of it funded by an always advisable raise in the federal cigarette tax The vote was 66-32 largely along party lines

President Obama rsquo s stimulus proposal failed to garner a single Republican vote in the House yesterday Their objections were many but were they legitimate On balance no but neither were the defenders of the bill examples of reasonableness Objection 1 This bill contains pork barrel spending

The GOP has a GOM Grand Old Mess on its hands Apologies to Gladstone nbsp The election for a new party chairman is exposing the fact that the party has no idea how to proceed after two straight election losses George W Bush had become the boogeyman for the GOP It was all his fault This lin

I do not know whether the practice can be defined as torture under the Vienna Convention and I am certain it is not mentioned in the Army field manual for the interrogation of suspects but it is time to bring back the pillory Pillories are made of wood and they were used as a form of punishment i