In Ireland, a politician has been refused communion and told he has excommunicated himself from the Catholic Church because he voted to legalize abortion.

Fine Gael TD Colm Burke voted in favor of repealing the Eighth Amendment, which had provided legal protection for unborn children. ...

The politician Burke said: “He gave me a blessing. I advised him that I was here to receive holy communion, and he said you are not getting holy communion.

“He then leaned forward and said, ‘You have been excommunicated’.