Catholic culture wars with Michael Sean Winters
In-person: dates and information below
On Zoom: Wednesday, May 18
8-9:30 pm ET/7-8:30 pm CT/5-6:30 pm PT
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If you live in upstate New York, you have four opportunities to hear this presentation in-person! CTA Upstate New York is again organizing its “thruway tour,” in which a speaker travels to communities across the state. Michael Sean Winters will offer the same talk in five cities this May. If you can’t attend in-person, you can hear the talk on Zoom on May 18. The Zoom event is part of the bi-monthly series organized by CTA’s Community Leaders (formerly known as Chapter Leaders).
About the event
Culture wars have distorted the Catholic intellectual and moral tradition of the Church. Michael Sean Winters will address the following topics:
Achieving a balance of the “common good” in our divided society.
The American tendency to reduce religion to ethics and politics and how that adds fuel to the fire of culture wars.
Protecting ourselves and our Church from the distortions of Culture Wars.
Becoming an inclusive church, one that listens, learns, and takes responsibility for proclaiming the Gospel.
Questions and interactive discussion to follow.
Michael Sean Winters is a journalist with the National Catholic Reporter covering politics and events in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the author of Left at the Altar: How Democrats Lost the Catholics and How Catholics Can Save the Democrats. His biography of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, God’s Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right was published in January 2012 to critical acclaim. Winters also reports on the US Church for the London-based Catholic weekly the Tablet.
Thruway tour dates
Sunday May 1, 2 pm ET | Contact: Dennis McDonald, deweymcd54@gmail.com
Albany, NY | Upper Room Inclusive Catholic Community, 431 New Kramer Road
Monday May 2, 7 pm ET | Contact: Parish Office, 315-472-9934, ext. 4
Syracuse, NY | All Saints Church, 1340 Lancaster Avenue
Tuesday May 3, 7 pm ET | Contact: Fr. Tim Taugher, 607-722-4388
Binghamton, NY | St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1049 Chenango Street
Wednesday May 4, 7 pm ET | Contact: Jamie Fazio, jfazio1@naz.edu
Rochester, NY | Nazareth College Shults Center Forum, 4235 East Avenue
Thursday May 5, 7 pm ET |Contact: Mike Toner, 726-636-1533
Buffalo, NY | Newman Center at UB North, 495 Skinnersville Road
