The Nation - News from Aug. 25, 1985

A nun who signed an Oct. 7 advertisement in the New York Times that asserted that Catholics may hold diverse views on abortion says her superiors in Rome have lifted the threat to remove her from a religious order. Sister Mary Byles, who teaches at Maryville College in Creve Coeur, Mo., said in today’s editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she received a letter in April from the Vatican. She refused to provide a copy of the letter. Byles said she believed that she had been cleared largely because of successful negotiations by her superiors in her order, the Religious of the Sacred Heart.