A Catholic hospital “has a responsibility not just to provide treatment and the care of Christ for the sick, but it also has a responsibility to bear witness to the Gospel.”

Prominent Priest Resigns From Irish Hospital’s Board After It Agrees to Perform Abortions

BY TOM O’GORMAN

The Mater Hospital announced last month it would comply with Ireland’s new law that requires the provision of abortions by tax-funded institutions, despite its Catholic identity.

A leading Irish priest, Father Kevin Doran, has dramatically resigned from the board of directors for the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, after it issued a statement saying it would carry out abortions under the government’s recently passed abortion legislation.

Father Doran, who organized last year’s successful International Eucharistic Congress, was the nominee of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin to the board.

The hospital issued a statement Sept. 24 that said, having considered the government’s new abortion law, it would “comply with the law as provided for in the [Protection of Life During Pregnancy] Act.”
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