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[Catholic Caucus] Wonderful Diversity: OFM Provincial Proclaims His "Homosexuality"Father Markus Fuhrmann, OFM, head of the 200-member German Franciscan Province, has told urbi et orbi that he is a "homosexual".He explained his confession to Katholisch.de (12 March) by saying that "I had to change something for the sake of my own honesty". Katholisch.de is run by the German bishops.Already in January 2022, Fuhrmann took part in 'OutInChurch', a homosexual propaganda campaign by about 120 employees of the "Catholic" Church in Germany, which employs about 650,000 people (including 'Caritas').Five months later, when the provincial chapter had to elect a new provincial, Fuhrmann...

St Conrad of Parzham (St Conrad de Parzham) Feast Day– April 22 St Conrad of Parzham, whose baptismal name was John, was the son of the devout and honest couple George Birndorfer and Gertrude Niedermayer. He was born on a farm near the town of Parzham in Bavaria in the year 1818. From his earliest years, St Conrad of Parzham gave indications of his future sanctity by his modesty and love of solitude. The fervor of his devotion was noticeable especially when he prayed in church, the distant location of which was no hindrance to his visiting it frequently even...

Pittsburgh Woman Believes Locket of Hair Helped Deliver Her Preemie SafelyApril 21, 2005 — Christopher Ian Frederic Chadwick looks like any other 5-year-old today.  Did a medallion and a locket, containing strands of white hair from French Canadian priest Frederic Janssoone, help deliver a baby? (ABC News) But in 1999, his mother, Jill Chadwick, went into labor four months early, and she fears things might have turned out differently if her mother hadn't brought her a medallion and locket from a blessed French Canadian priest.The items came from tiny St. Anthony's chapel in a working-class neighborhood on Harpster Street in Pittsburgh,...

OLYMPIA—The Evergreen Freedom Foundation received a phone call today from the Office of Financial Management (OFM) expressing concern with our recently released Policy Highlighter: Gregoire's "unsustainable" budget. In that piece, we highlighted the information from page 17 of the governor's Proposed 2005-07 Budget Recommendation Summaries that shows a 28 percent increase in the budget for the governor's office and a 21 percent increase in the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees in that office.According to OFM, the information found on page 17 of the Budget Recommendation Summaries is correct, but the "increases" are not really increases. This is a result...

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Lab guard post near classified facilities in what United States officials think was ian intelligence mission, the Washington Times has learned.The diplomats, identified as Hua Yu and Bo Lai, were on an intelligence mission that is raising new worries of Chinese nuclear spying against the United States, according to US officials familiar with the incident.Pajarito Road is the site of two sensitive facilities. One is the Critical Assembly Facility known as Technical Area 18, the other is the Plutonium Reasearch facility,...