The Bankruptcy of Catholic Liberalism: NCR’s Winters Baptizes Socialist Politics as Gospel Imperative
The National Catholic Reporter portal (August 13, 2026) publishes an opinion column by its regular contributor Michael Sean Winters, in which he endorses Senator Bernie Sanders’ indictment of the Democratic Party establishment, effectively baptizing socialist healthcare and housing policies as the realization of Catholic social teaching. The article treats the machinations of a Masonic two-party system as the legitimate arena for the Church’s mission, reducing the Kingship of Christ to a platform plank for government-managed redistribution. This is not political analysis; it is the prostitution of the Bride of Christ to the spirit of the age.