Chris Coghlan is a Catholic and liberal member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. He recently voted in favor of state-approved and -administered euthanasia, which is when doctors kill their sick patients for any variety of reasons.

Now his parish priest, after plenty of private and public warnings, has informed Coghlan that he is out of communion with the church, which teaches very clearly that killing someone to end his or her suffering “constitutes a murder” and thus “must always be forbidden.”

Coghlan is angry at his pastor and taking the spat to the broader public.

My Catholic Priest publicly announced at every mass he was denying me Holy Communion following the assisted dying vote. Children who are friends of my children were there. This followed a direct threat in writing to........

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