CFAA calls for denial of sacraments to Governor Gray Davis

Austerlitz, NY - April 4, 2002 - In an article titled Spiritual Frankensteins published April 3, the Catholic Family Association of America (CFAA) called upon Bishop William K. Weigand, of the Diocese of Sacramento to publicly deny California Gov. Gray Davis reception of all sacraments but that of repentance, and to excommunicate him from the Catholic Church if Davis persists in public scandal.

Stating that Davis' creation of a task force to advise him on how to bring Vermont-style homosexual "civil unions" to California was the last step in "...placing the fuel about his person for the spiritual self-immolation he apparently seeks", Timothy A. Chichester, President of CFAA, went on to say that "The Culture of Death so ardently supported by Davis, as witnessed by his many anti-life actions, is back-lighted by his mindless advocacy of homosexual marriages, disguised as "civil unions", the very essence of scatologicaly centered sterility in which one man pretends to be a woman while another pretends that it is so."

The CFAA holds that in the face of such effrontery by Catholic Davis, Bishop Weigand needs to take a publicly active leadership role lest his response be interpreted as acquiescence to evil, a failure to protect his flock. Chichester cited a Vatican 'Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons' which states "The church has the responsibility to promote family life and the public morality of the entire civil society on the basis of fundamental moral values, not simply to protect herself from the application of harmful laws."

Chichester noted "It is the CFAA position that the failure of bishops to consistently and loudly teach that it is a grave sin to knowingly vote for pro-abortion politicians has resulted in their nurturing spiritual Frankensteins such as Davis."

He went on to say "Indeed, as the realization grows that one present crisis in the Catholic Church is the inability of homosexuals to live an ordered life in the presence of the strictest moral code in the world, it is incumbent on all the bishops of California, and the nation, to loudly and publicly condemn the civic institutionalization of this grave disorder as a public good."

Spiritual Frankensteins

by Timothy A. Chichester

It is no surprise to pro-life Catholics that the "Gates of Hell" are clanging wildly near diocesean chancelry offices across the country.

It's been like watching a mad professor with a spiritu-psycho erector set bolting the contraption together down in the Church cellar. We saw the welcome received by dissidents such as the CNN puppet Fr. McBrien, the stifling of pro-life initiatives, the snide attacks on Paul VI and John Paul II, the unholy diocesan newsrags distorting orthodox teaching, the 'tolerance' fixated clerics, the militant trashing of Catholic colleges pursuing 'academic freedom' when they meant deconstructing Catholicism. Pieces all coming together to build the contraption.

We saw it in the seminaries ( I often slip and use 'cemeteries'), like those used by the Diocese of the Living Dead, in Albany, NY, where only the 'less rigid' need apply, and in Altoona-Johnstown, PA, where potential seminarians are screened by a homosexual activist who preaches aginst Church teaching. We saw it in the smiling face of a Prince of the Church, a soul wrapped round about by seamless arguments. We saw it in the intractable sex ed, forced into our Catholic schools, in Baltimore and elsewhere, holding the eyes of our future super-glued wide open, burning their innocence to power the machine. The fuel best loved by the Devil is innocence - it burns brightest and hottest.

What did we see? We saw the machine.

What machine? Why, the monster machine of course! We saw it abuilding. We ran to and fro to the Church authorities, incessantly waving our wooden pitch-forks and other peasant paraphernalia, pointing at the machine in the Church cellar. Naive peasants. We guessed, but inaccurately, the level of betrayal of those ferociously guarding the cellar.

We saw the first products of the machine lurch out into society, the spiritual Frankensteins, the monsters nurtured in the bosom of the Church, programmed to turn on her like Manchurian Candidates. Programmed to deconstruct what was once Christendom into an Orwellian politically correct rigidity via the mechanisim of social anarchy. One might even reflect on the fact that Shellys original monster, unlike any of ours, spared innocent life.

Various models rolled out: the original Kennedy model, constantly reto-fitted with the latest anti-Catholic soul-ware; the Daschle Mark I, forever "disappointed" that he hasn't struck a final mortal blow against the cause of unborn; the Leahy Liar-Express, delusionally maintaining his Irish-Italian Catholicity while witch-hunting professed Christians in government; et.al. ...

The latest example of one of these spiritual Frankensteins is Governor Gayout Davis, so fundamentally flawed in the exercise of his Catholic faith that one wonders whether "sinfully stupid" should be used to describe him because "dullness of intellect" might escape him.>p? The Culture of Death so ardently supported by Davis, and witnessed by his many anti-life actions, is back-lighted by his mindless advocacy of homosexual marriages, disguised as "civil unions", in which one man pretends to be a woman while another pretends that he is - the very essence of scatologicaly centered sterility. This is akin to placing the last bits to the edifice of fuel about his person for the spiritual self-immolation he apparently seeks.

Can this Frankenstein be saved? Does he really have to go up in flames? As he lurches through the countryside, is there a power enough to stop him? Yes. No. Maybe.

Were Bishop William K. Weigand, of the Diocese of Sacramento to publicly deny California Gov. Gray Davis reception of all sacraments excluding that of repentance, under pain of excommunication, and do so that the interdiction is applicable throughout the Church, not just his diocese, then the remnent of Christianity in Davis might respond. The threat of excommunication worked for Archbishop Milingo and he didn't even have to worry about what a few million Catholic voters might think.

The Vatican certainly thinks that the bishop has a duty to do everything possible to protect his flock, especially in regard to legislative proposals concerning homosexual 'rights'. Its 1992 revised 'Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons' states "The church has the responsibility to promote family life and the public morality of the entire civil society on the basis of fundamental moral values, not simply to protect herself from the application of harmful laws." A heavy responsibility.

The bishop needs to exercise pastoral responsibility in a public manner befitting the public threat to faith and morals that Davis' notorious public behavior has brought about. Failure to publicly take an active leadership role may be interpreted by the public as acquiescence to evil, a cowardly a failure to protect his flock. The Lord knows we've seen enough active cooperation with this particular evil by Bishop Gumbelton of Detroit.

It is the Catholic Family Association of America's position that the failure of bishops to consistently and loudly teach that it is a grave sin to knowingly vote for pro-abortion politicians has resulted in their nurturing spiritual Frankensteins such as Davis.

Indeed, as the realization grows that one present crisis in the Catholic Church is the inability of homosexuals to live an ordered life in the presence of the strictest moral code in the world, it is incumbent on all the bishops of California, and the nation, to loudly and publicly condemn the civic institutionalization of this grave disorder as a public good.

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TO:
Pope John Paul II,
Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church

FROM:
PLAINTIFFS

Mr. Stephen G. Brady, President, Roman Catholic Faithful
Dr. Craig Bozzacco, D.D.S., President, Dentists for Life
Mr. Michael Cain, Editor, The Daily Catholic
Mr. Vinny Ciappetta, President, National Cops for Life
Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara, President, American Catholic               Lawyers Association, Inc
Dr. Brian J. Kopp, Columnist, Vice-President, Catholic         Family Association of America, Inc.
Dr. Claude E. Newbury, President, Pro-Life South Africa;    Founding Member, Intrnl. Right to Life
   Regional Representative for Human Life Int.
Rev. Fr. John Trigilio, PhD, Editor, SAPIENTIA Magazine;    Co-host EWTN's Web of Faith; Vice President,    Confraternity of Catholic Clergy

Mrs. Judie Brown, President, American Life League, Inc.
Mr. Richard L. Bucci, President, Catholic Radio, NY
Mr. Timothy A. Chichester, President, Catholic Family               Association of America, Inc.
Mr. William Cotter, President, Operation Rescue-Boston
Dr. Chris Kahlenborn, Author, "Breast Cancer: It's Link    to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill"
Mr. Phillip F. Lawler, Editor, Catholic World News
Charles P. Prezzia MD, MPH, President, Catholic Medical    Association
Mr. Joseph Scheidler, Director, Pro-Life Action League
Donna Steichen, Author of "Ungodly Rage"
Monica M. Miller, Ph.D., Author

(Remainder to be filled upon closing of the signatory phase)
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AGAINST:

DEFENDANTS
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) Gov. Mario Cuomo (D-ex-Gov. of NY) Gov. Gray Davis, (D-Gov. of CA) Rep. John Baldacci (D-ME) Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA) Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) Rep. William Clay (D-MO) Rep. William Coyne (D-PA) Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL) Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) Rep. John Larson (D-CT) Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Rep. Bill Luther (D-MN)	Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Sen. Barbara Milkulski (D-MD) Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) Sen. Jack Reed (RI) Ambassador Paul Celluci (R-MA) Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA) Gov. James E. McGreevey (D-NJ) Fr. Robert Drinan, S.J. (frmr US Rep) Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) Rep. Karen McCarthy (D-MO) Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Rep. George Miller (D-CA) Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD) Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA) Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) Rep. Ed Pastor (D-AZ) Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA)

all of whom are nominally members of the Catholic Church and all other of such members unnamed who commit or make the same or similar acts and/or statements as the Defendants as alleged herein.

SUMMARY OF PETITION
The Plaintiffs are professed Catholics who bring this Petition on behalf of themselves as members of the Catholic Church. Non-Catholics join this petition Amicus Curiae as members of other faiths who are stricken by the scandal of notorious Catholics who relentlessly distort the most basic teachings of Christ in their pursuit of a Culture of Death.

Catholics and non-Catholics are both painfully aware of the wreckage to our national society that is the apparent result of failure to discipline members within the Catholic Church. Be it the Defendants enabling of the genocidal attack of the abortionists upon our Black and Hispanic population or the acquiescence to, or promotion of, anti-family homosexual movements, the result is the same: a great loss of faith, the diminution of the Catholic Church in the eyes of both Christians and non-Christians, and the unspeakable spiritual and physical woe of living in a society formed in law by the Defendants.

The Plaintiffs are sorely aware that petitions for the remediation of the errors of the Defendants have repeatedly reached the ears of the American Episcopacy during three decades of pleading by the laity and faithful clergy.

We can no longer afford a Potemkin Episcopacy, so timid in action. While a case for a gentler approach to the Defendants could be made in the past, the rejection of these pleas and the utter failure of the most of the American Episcopacy to properly catechize the faithful of the sin of voting for anti-life politicians has seen a horrific extension of the Culture of Death at the hands of the Defendants and like minded anti-Christians. While a case could be made that Public Excommunication could result in the decreased influence of Catholic politicians, we Plaintiffs ask "If they reject Christian teaching and actively promote the murder of the innocent now, what influence exists? At what price?" Indeed, the State of Massachusetts is a spiritual cesspool in which virtually every elected Federal and State officeholder is a nominal Catholic and staunch supporter of abortion and the horror called Partial Birth Infanticide, while the laity hardly ever hear a peep from the pulpit.

We have now reached a point where the results of the chronic failure to apply remedial Public Excommunication to recalcitrant elected Catholic officials, such as the Federal and state officeholders listed above, has so encouraged these nominally Catholic Defendants in the practice of pragmatic atheism that our nation appears to be hopelessly mired in the abyss of blood, gore and sodomy that attends societies constructed on the principles of atheism. Our nation is being destroyed, and we are exporting this Culture of Death as official policy. The Defendants are powerful enabling forces in full cooperation with these policies.

The Defendants who have been, are and will be accomplices of abortions and sodomite lifestyles by reason of their public and notorious acts and/or statements which enable, support or condone abortion and sodomy. Plaintiffs seek a declaration that such acts and statements are contrary to and inimical to the faith of the Catholic Church; that Defendants commit a scandal to the Mystical Body of Christ and a sacrilege to the Eucharistic Body of Christ when received by them, and that they are subject to formal Public Excommunication unless they publicly recant of their explicit and implicit scandalous support of laws, policy and people that assault the innocent and profane the Catholic faith.

In summary, the Plaintiffs seek the following directives and orders :

1. Order that such acts and statements by Defendants be stopped;
2. Order public repentance and retraction by Defendants for their acts and statements;
3. Prohibit Defendants from Eucharistic receptions until they have complied with 1 & 2
4. Order Public Excommunication of any Defendant who does not follow such orders.

JURISDICTION

Can. 1311: The Church has the inate and proper right to coerce offending members of the Christian faithful with penal sanctions. Jurisdiction lies under Canons 1417 and 1442 of the Code of Canon Law which permit any of the faithful to introduce their case personally before the Roman Pontiff as the Supreme Judge for the whole Catholic world. The Church has its own and exclusive right to judge whatever is sinful to determine guilt and impose ecclesiastical penalties under Canon 1401.2.

ALLEGATIONS

1)   Each one is an elected official holding high office and has publicly held that, contrary to the requirements of an informed conscience, the moral position of the abortionists and homosexuals command a higher allegiance than the moral teachings of their Catholic faith. They exhibit the conscience of the pragmatic atheist.

2)   They have consistently worked to enable laws and regulations and otherwise ACTED in such a way as to affirm the moral desirability of the taking of innocent life and the protection of lethal homosexual lifestyles at the expense of the most basic Christian morality.

3)  Because their malformed consciences are capable of any rationalization, however bizarre,they distort Christian teaching by conveying the image of a hovering Christ nodding approval while the abortionist holds a writhing baby in hand and sucks her little brains out during the procedure of Partial Birth Infanticide.

4)  Most have consistently applied a LITMUS TEST, a defacto religious test , for those Christians who have come before them for confirmation to office. They have politicized religious belief and found Christianity wanting. They forget that Dred Scott was "settled law" - and only reversed by a torrent of blood and a century and a half of heartache.

5)   They seek to emplace judges that are pragmatic atheists and block those that truly act as Christians. They wish to confirm to the bench only those who reject the idea that the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence DO guarantee "an unalienable" right to life and liberty.

6) They uniformly cooperate to enable the genocidal population policies against Hispanics and Blacks within and without our nation.

7) The acts and statements of Defendants physically or morally enable abortions and constitute the following violations of Canon Law:
a. Accomplices to abortion, in violation of Canons 1329.2, 1397 and 1398.
b. Disobedience to the teaching of the United States Bishops who represent Christ, have
              declared as teachers of the faith that "no Catholic can responsibly take a 'pro-choice'
              stand when the 'choice' in question involves the taking of innocent human life", in
              violation of Canon 212.1.
c. Grave harm to public morals, in violation of Canon 1369.
d. Sacrilegious reception of the sacrament of the Eucharist, in violation of Canons 1399 and 915.
e. Ex-communion from the Church, in violation of Canon 209.1.
f. Ex-communication from the Church as an apostate, heretic or schismatic, in violation of Canon 1364.

8) Because of these external violations, imputability is presumed under Canon 21.3.

9) Because of Defendants' public positions of dignity and abuse of their position of authority and office and long standing contempt and the gravity of scandal, a more serious punishment should be inflicted, pursuant to Canons 1364.2 and 1326.2.

10) Regarding Defendants' violations, their Bishops are bound to defend the unity of the universal Church to foster discipline which is common to the whole Church and to press for the observance of all ecclesiastical laws, pursuant to Canon 392.1.

11) Regarding Defendants' violations which give rise to scandal and serious disturbances of public order, their Bishops can correct defendants in a way appropriate to their particular conditions and of what has been done, pursuant to Canon 1339.2.

12) Regarding Defendants' violations, their Bishops should have started judicial procedures for the imposition or declaration of penalties, pursuant to Canons 1311, 1341.

13) Notwithstanding such, and the undisputed facts alleged herein, on information and belief, Defendants' Bishops have not followed or implemented Canons 1311,1326.2, 392.1, 1339.2, 1341 and 915 and have not imposed any public sanctions upon Defendants.

14) Because of such failure to act and the gravity of the situation, harm to human life and public morals, Plaintiffs as members of the faithful introduce this petition directly to the Roman Pontiff pursuant to Canons 1417.1 and 1442.

15) Plaintiffs also bring this petition on behalf of the innocent unborn children whose lives are imminently in danger by Defendants' acts and/or statements who have no one but Plaintiffs to act for them. They are not recognized as physical persons under the civil law of the United States of America. However, they are physical persons under Canons 97.1 and 97.2 and Plaintiffs should be appointed as their Guardians under Canon 1478.2.

16)   All defendants and their bishops have been sent copies of this Petition.
      (to be implemented upon closing of the signatory phase;
      some defendants have been already contacted.)

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs request the following relief:

A. That Pope John Paul II, Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church take jurisdiction of this petition.

B. That Canon 1398 be changed to read: "A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication. An elected or appointed official who votes for legislation enabling abortion, euthanasia and other forms of direct attack upon life incurs a latae sententiae excommunication. An elected or appointed official who publicly propagandizes for or promotes abortion, euthanasia and other forms of direct attack upon life incurs a latae sententiae excommunication."

C. That he issue to the bishops specific directives concerning the implementation and enforcement of interdiction and excommunication for public promoters of abortion, euthanasia and other forms of direct attack upon life.

D. That he publicly order Defendants to:
   1. Refrain from any act or statement which enables, supports or condones abortion, euthanasia and other
       forms of direct attack upon life.
   2. Publicly repent and retract their errors and promise no further acts and/or statements
               which enable, support or condone abortion, euthanasia and other forms of direct attack upon life.
   3. Refrain from reception of the sacrament of Eucharist until the above orders have been followed.

E. That he publicly declare that Defendants' acts and/or statements as alleged are:
   1. Contrary to and inimical to the faith of the Catholic Church ;
   2. A scandal to the Mystical Body of Christ, the faithful of the Catholic Church ; and
   3. A sacrilege to the Real Body and Blood of Jesus Christ when Defendants receive
               the sacrament of the Eucharist.

F. In the event that any Defendant fails to follow any of the above orders to publicly
excommunicate him or her from the Catholic Church .

Dated at (to be implemented upon closing of the signatory phase) , 2001

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