Kathleen Sprows Cummings

For most of US history, Americans viewed the pope as a menace who harbored designs on the White House. Today, that menace is in the White House, and the pope is defending American ideals, writes Kathleen Sprows Cummings.

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.

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.