The last thing Sally Mews wants to remember is her violent childhood in the Midwest, marred as it was by alcoholic parents and constant abuse, made worse, she said, by the ridicule of nuns in school who had no idea what she and her siblings were going through at home. "We were always considered problems, always held up as examples of how not to behave," Mews said. "When you're young and vulnerable, that's painful."But Mews' spiritual journey has taken her from that rocky start - and a long estrangement from the Catholic Church - to the creator of a national...