Nathan Leonhardt, a Cathedral of St. Paul custodian who found the newborn Jan. 4, said he encounters “the weirdest scenarios” in his day-to-day work. “I run into a lot of different situations, but this is by far the best,” he said.
A custodian found a newborn at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul Jan. 4 about 6 p.m. while locking up the building following the evening Mass. The baby was left in a plastic laundry basket between the exterior and interior doors of a Dayton Avenue entrance.
St. Joseph Hospital in St. Paul celebrated the New Year with the birth of Brayden Andrew Kuenster, who was born at 1:27 a.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces.
“It is necessary to reassert the strongest opposition to every direct attack on life, especially innocent and defenseless life, and the unborn child in the womb is the definition of innocence. Every Christian is responsible for this evangelical witness: to protect life in all its stages with courage and love.
Without any significant consideration, the Minnesota Legislature is poised to create a commercial surrogacy business that would essentially legitimize the buying and selling of children between two contracting parties.
A recent news report chronicled a Chinese woman named Huang Yijun. Sixty years ago, her unborn child died, but the pregnancy was never expelled from her body. Instead, her baby’s body slowly began to calcify inside her, becoming a crystallized, stone-like mass. Such stone babies (known as lithopedions) are extremely rare.
