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IMAGE: CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic SpiritBy Maria WieringST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) -- Anewborn child found on the doorstep of the Cathedral of St. Paul was in goodhealth and being cared for by local children's services officials.Nathan Leonhardt, a custodian at the cathedral,discovered the child Jan. 4 as he was locking the building about 6 p.m. followingevening Mass. The baby was left in a plastic laundry basket between theexterior and interior doors of a church entrance.Leonhardt and Father John Ubel, cathedralrector, cared for the infant boy in the church sacristy until emergencyresponders arrived. The priest said he baptized the child while waiting forpolice and an ambulance to arrive.FatherUbel said he hopes the boy, whom he christened Nathan John, will be adopted by aCatholic family. He finds it significant that the baby was left at a Catholicparish. The baby was placed in the care of Ramsey County Child ProtectiveServices.Police are not pursuing the case as a criminalmat...
Three rookies among 17 first-time selections highlight The Associated Press 2016 NFL All-Pro Team, led by Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott and Kansas City's Tyreek Hill, a unanimous choice as punt returner....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Television's enthusiastic attic-rummaging for old shows to resurrect isn't abating....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama urged fellow leaders at the United Nations to do more for the world's refugees, his mention of a young boy named Alex could have been just a footnote, unnoticed or quickly forgotten....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Panicked shoppers emptied shelves of bread and milk, road workers began working 12-hour shifts, and governors in Alabama and Georgia declared states of emergencies ahead of a winter storm stalking the South....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld parks, has died....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The two 18-year-old men had been schoolmates, police say. After meeting at McDonald's, they spent two days together, driving around visiting friends. Then a pretend fight escalated into a brutal beating of one of the men, a mentally disabled teenager, in an attack that stirred racial tensions and outrage after being broadcast on Facebook Live....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump was hours away Friday from listening to the nation's top intelligence officials make their most detailed and persuasive case yet that Russia's government interfered in this year's U.S. presidential elections....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis presided over Mass for the feast of the Epiphany which was celebrated on Friday in St Peter's Basilica.Below is an English translation of the Pope's homily.“Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we have observed his star in the East, and have come to worship him” (Mt 2:2).With these words, the Magi, come from afar, tell us the reason for their long journey: they came to worship the newborn King. To see and to worship. These two actions stand out in the Gospel account. We saw a star and we want to worship.These men saw a star that made them set out. The discovery of something unusual in the heavens sparked a whole series of events. The star did not shine just for them, nor did they have special DNA to be able to see it. As one of the Church Fathers rightly noted, the Magi did not set out because they had seen the star, but they saw the star because they had already set ou...
Vatican Weekend for January 8, 2017 presents our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading and our resident Vatican watcher, Joan Lewis looks back at Pope Francis' activities over the past week, including the Pope's New Year's Day Peace Message and Angelus.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure :
