Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Kathleen Sprows Cummings is director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, professor of American studies and history at the University of Notre Dame and author of A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American.

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Author is pictured right of then-Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua (center) at the 1989 March for Life — the first and only time she attended the anti-abortion event.

I'm pro-life. Here's why I don't attend the March for Life.

My growing feminism and life as a mother pushed me from anti-abortion activism. But it was the clergy sex abuse scandal that soured me on any characterization of abortion as the pre-eminent moral issue of our time.

A saint for our times: This man would be a relevant, revolutionary choice

Commentary: Should Michael McGivney, a humble parish priest, become the first native-born Irish American male saint? Maybe. But U.S. Catholics might be more inclined to rally behind another St. Mychal.

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