UK: Archbishop fires Catholic Hospital board over ethics

Riazatt But reports on the Guardian:

A Roman Catholic hospital is in chaos after the Archbishop of Westminster ordered the resignation of its board of directors.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, head of the Catholic church in England and Wales, intervened in the affairs of the hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London, where he is patron, after protracted rows over the adoption of a tighter ethical code banning non-Catholic practices such as abortions, contraception and sex-change operations . . .