 Lavinia Byrne

Lavinia Byrne (born 1947 in Birmingham) is a former nun who in 2000 left the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Roman Catholic religious institute, after 35 years, saying that the Vatican had been bullying her to abandon support for women priests.Her 1993 book "Woman at the Altar" () outlined her arguments for women priests, and she also wrote about contraception.