Michael Sean Winters

"Distinctly Catholic" received the Catholic Press Association award for "Best Individual Blog" multiple times. Winters is also the US correspondent for The Tablet, the London-based international Catholic weekly. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Winters previously served as a visiting fellow at Catholic University's Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, but is no longer connected to the institute.[https://www.uscatholic.org/authors/michael-sean-winters-30955 "Michael Sean Winters", US Catholic] Prior to that, Winters wrote a daily political blog for America and was the political columnist for The Catholic World. In 2002, National Journal's Hotline asked George Stephanopoulos, "Who is the most important person in Washington nobody has ever heard of?" His response was, "Michael Sean Winters."{{Cite web |title=Michael Sean Winters |url=https://garamondagency.com/client/michael-sean-winters/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=garamondagency.com}}

Winters has described himself as an "Ella Grasso Democrat," a reference to the pro-labor, pro-life, pro-Israel Governor of Connecticut in the 1970s.{{Cite web |title=Me? A Neo-con? {{!}} National Catholic Reporter |url=https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/me-neo-con,%20https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/me-neo-con |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=www.ncronline.org |language=en}} Winters has written in opposition to the agenda of President Donald Trump.{{Cite web|last=Winters |first= Michael Sean |authorlink= |title=A grim Fourth of July arrives in the Age of Trump |publisher=National Catholic Reporter|date=July 3, 2018 |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/grim-fourth-july-arrives-age-trump |quote=To my friends in the Republican political and legal establishment who have not stood up to Trump: When the revolution comes, you are on your own, and I will be clamoring not for mercy but for a seat next to the guillotine, where I can do my knitting}}

Winters's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine.

• Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Democrats
• God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right, HarperCollins (2012)

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Reviewed in:

• {{cite magazine |last1=Bonfiglio |first1=Olga |title=Reviving a 'Common Good' Partnership |magazine=America |date=1 September 2008 |volume=99 |issue=5 |pages=23–24 |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/culture/reviving-common-good-partnership |issn=0002-7049}}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Lowenstein |first1=Roger |author-link=Roger Lowenstein |title=The Democrats' Lost Tribe |magazine=Conde Nast Portfolio |date=September 2008 |volume=2 |issue=9 |page=80 |url=http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2008/08/13/Review-of-Left-at-the-Altar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201192748/http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2008/08/13/Review-of-Left-at-the-Altar |archive-date=1 December 2008 |issn=1936-0916}}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Nixon |first1=C. Robert |title=Arts & Humanities |magazine=Library Journal |date=1 June 2008 |volume=133 |issue=10 |page=102 |issn=0363-0277}}
• {{cite magazine |title=Review: Nonfiction |magazine=Publishers Weekly |date=28 April 2008 |volume=255 |issue=17 |pages=121–122 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-465-09166-9 |issn=0000-0019}}

Reviewed in:

• {{cite magazine |last1=Coburn |first1=Carol K. |title=A Media Master |magazine=America |date=19 November 2012 |volume=207 |issue=15 |pages=33–34 |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/culture/media-master |issn=0002-7049}}
• {{cite news |last1=Feuerherd |first1=Ben |title=Biography examines Falwell's legacy |work=National Catholic Reporter |date= 27 April – 10 May 2012|volume=48 |number=14 |pages=1a, 3a |url=https://www.ncronline.org/books/2021/06/biography-examines-falwells-legacy |issn=0027-8939}}
• {{cite magazine |title=God's Right Hand |magazine=Kirkus Reviews |date=15 November 2011 |volume=79 |issue=12 |pages=2107–2108 |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-sean-winters/gods-right-hand/ |language=en |issn=1948-7428}}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Olson |first1=Ray |title=Religion Stars |magazine=Booklist |date=15 November 2011 |volume=108 |issue=6 |page=20 |issn=0006-7385}}
• {{cite magazine |title=Review: Nonfiction |magazine=Publishers Weekly |date=9 January 2012 |volume=259 |issue=2 |page=49 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-197067-2 |issn=0000-0019}}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Riley |first1=Naomi Schaefer |author-link=Naomi Schaefer Riley |title=Reverend Right |magazine=Commentary |date=June 2012 |volume=133 |issue=6 |pages=65–67 |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/naomi-schaefer-riley/reverend-right/ |issn=0010-2601}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Swartz |first1=David R. |title=Review: God's Right Hand |journal=Journal of Southern Religion |date=2012 |volume=14 |url=http://jsreligion.org/issues/vol14/swartz.html |issn=1094-5253}}

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