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.”