Twenty-four nuns who signed a declaration saying...

Twenty-four nuns who signed a declaration saying Roman Catholics have a “diversity of opinion” on the morality of abortion are refusing to retract their statement, despite a Vatican threat of dismissal, one of the group said in Chicago. “We are not pro-abortion; not one of us is,” said Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler, one of the 24 nuns and 50 members of the laity who met over the weekend to discuss the nuns’ situation. The nuns have unanimously agreed to stand by their statement, said Sister Traxler, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.