Burke formally denies sacraments to defiant board By Tim Townsend Of the Post-Dispatch 02/11/2005 St. Stanislaus Church (KEVIN MANNING /P-D) John Baras' first grandson arrived in the world Thursday just five hours after a decree of interdict, written on St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke's own stationery and sealed with a rubber stamp, arrived at Baras' home, delivered by a courier. The interdict means Baras and the other five members of the church's board have fallen out of communion with the Roman Catholic Church and will no longer be able to participate in the sacraments of the church. p>