(Life News)—Catholic United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP) Chris Coghlan this weekend expressed outrage after his local priest reportedly announced to the parish that he would not give the MP Holy Eucharist because Coghlan recently voted in favor of legalizing assisted suicide.
Many on social media are praising the priest, saying his actions were consistent with Church teaching and coming from a place of charity and concern for Coghlan’s soul. The Catholic Church teaches that suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia are grave evils and prohibits support of them. The Church also holds that it is sacrilegious to receive the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin.
According to the BBC, Coghlan identified the priest as Father Ian Vane, who is pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Dorking. Coghlan is the Liberal Democrat MP for Dorking and Horley, and he told the outlet that he was not present in the church when the announcement was made, but several people contacted him expressing dismay at Fr. Vane’s alleged words.
On June 20, the UK Parliament’s House of Commons voted 314-291 in favor of legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. Four days before the vote, Fr. Vane had privately reached out via email to Coghlan about the matter, warning both about the grave evil of voting in favor of the bill and of how, if he did support it, he would be denied the Eucharist, according to a June 28 article Coghlan wrote in the Observer.
Fr. Vane allegedly warned that voting in favor of assisted suicide would make Coghlan “an obstinate public sinner” and that Coghlan would be complicit in a “murderous act, which must always been forbidden and excluded,” according to Coghlan. Fr. Vane also explained in the email that a pro-assisted suicide vote would mark “a clear contravention of the Church’s teaching, which would leave me in the position of not being able to give you holy communion, as to do so would cause scandal in the Church.”
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