Michael Sean Winters

Columnist, National Catholic Reporter

Michael Sean Winters is a columnist at the National Catholic Reporter, where his columns have won multiple awards from the Catholic Media Association. He is the director of the Way Forward, a project that brings Catholic leaders together to examine important issues affecting the life of the Church.  He is a fellow at the Center for Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is the author of Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Democrats (2008) and God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Baptized the American Right and Made God a Republican (2012). He has written for The New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and other publications.