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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A crucifix similar to one that inspired Romans to turn to God in an epidemic in 1522 will be brought to Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. Ascension Via Christi says in December of 2020, Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of the St. Louis Archdiocese visited its offices in St. Louis, Mo., and offered a special blessing for that serve its mission nationwide, especially those that care for patients and their families.Read Full StoryPandemicReligionPublic HealthGod` Pandemic Crucifix 'WIBWRomansThe St. Louis ArchdioceseFort ScottAscension Via Christi 'sThe Pandemic CrucifixBlessingRomePope Francis

Trying to save jobs as the pandemic pummels Vatican revenues, Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See. In a decree being published on Wednesday by the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Francis said that starting in April cardinals' salaries will be reduced 10%. Superiors of the Holy See's various departments will be hit by 8% cuts while lower-ranking priests and nuns will see 3% vanish from their paychecks. In the decree he signed on Tuesday, the pope noted that the Holy See's finances have been marked by several years of deficit. Worsening those financial woes, the pope wrote, was the COVID-19 pandemic, “which has impacted negatively on all the sources of revenue of the Holy See and Vatican City State.” The belt-tightening "has the aim of saving current job positions,'' Francis wrote. Bans on tourism by many countries and other pandemic restrictions have severely reduced revenues at the Vatican Museums, which, with its Sistine Chapel, is one of the most-visited tourist attractions in Italy . A perennial big money-maker for the Vatican, the Museums opened for some weeks during the pandemic, when the situation in Italy improved. But with tourists from the United States and some other countries banned, the museums' cavernous rooms were eerily uncrowded. The Museums are currently closed and will stay so for now, including during the upcoming Holy Week. The pay cuts also apply to several Vatican basilicas in Rome as well as to the diocese of Rome, which is under the pope's direction. Cardinals, other clerics and well as nuns generally don't have expenses most people have like rent, mortgages, utility and heating bills, since they reside in housing owned by the Vatican or religious orders. Some cardinals have spacious, well-appointed apartments in historic palazzi in Rome. In any case, Francis noted, the salary reductions won't apply to anyone who can document that the cuts will make it “impossible to meet fixed expenses related to their health conditions or those of their relatives.” ——— Follow all of AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic, https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak Vatican MuseumsTourismReligionPriestsJob CutsThe Holy See 'sThe Holy See AndSistine ChapelAPHoly SeePay CutsVatican City StateApril CardinalsNunsRomePope Francis

After bouncing around the minors for 10 years, the late-blooming Jose Martinez seemed to finally find a home with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2017 at age 28, hitting over .300 with an OPS+ above 120 in both 2017 and 2018. Of course, what Martinez provided with the bat, he...Read Full StoryJose MartinezMetsMlbBaseballRaysCubsDefensive LineThe St. Louis CardinalsMLBNLLeftiesLeft-handersSubpar OffenseRoster DepthTampa BayMatthew LiberatoreRandy Arozarena

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Finally, after nine spring training games, three of which were ties and five of which featured innings when the starter was either taken out of the inning early or the inning just ended early, there was normalcy. With a pitching pairing of Washington’s Max Scherzer...Read Full StoryCardinalsBaseballJohan OviedoMlbHe Got GameEnd GameHome GameGoldyThe GameInningsHittersNo-hit ModeDefenseRunsJose RondonMax ScherzerStarlin CastroMike ShildtZack ThompsonMatthew LiberatoreMike MadduxNolan ArenadoPaul GoldschmidtAlex AvilaTommy EdmanJosh HarrisonJordy MercerTrea TurnerHarrison BaderAdam WainwrightJohn GantHomer

At 67 inches tall, or 5-foot-7 in human terms, Louis is considered huge—and he has a heart and personality to match. The 26-year-old horse (a Hanoverian Warmblood, if you want to get technical) is a gentle giant who is spending his golden years providing comfort and companionship to people across the globe, said his “mom” and caretaker, Janet Reynolds of Simi Valley.Read Full StoryWonderful PeopleHorse RidersTall PeopleHappy PeopleSad PeopleLouisSimi Valley FacebookFaceTimeUpstate New YorkRide On 'sPeppertree RanchPersonalityVirtual SmilesKidsGolden Years

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jared Spurgeon had two goals, and Nico Sturm scored the tiebreaker as the Minnesota Wild beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 on Wednesday night and swept the teams’ two-game set.Cam Talbot made 28 saves for the Wild, who extended a franchise record with their 10th straight home win. Ryan Suter had two assists for Minnesota, becoming the fifth active NHL defenseman to reach 600 career points.Derek Grant and Max Comtois scored for the Ducks, who have lost seven of eight. Ryan Miller made 23 saves in his sixth straight start with John Gibson out for his fifth game with a lower-body injury.Sturm scored his fourth goal of the season after a mistake by Miller. A dump-in from Nick Bjugstad went on goal. Miller tried to cover the puck, but it slid away, right to Sturm for an easy tap-in.Spurgeon’s two goals, giving him three this season, came off deflections on passes from Suter.On the first goal, Suter passed from near the top of the faceoff circle to the middle, where Spurgeon redirected the puck past Miller. The second, giving Minnesota a 2-1 lead, was a tip in the middle of the zone after Suter’s point shot.Grant’s second goal of the season came just 24 seconds after Spurgeon’s first as Anaheim answered quickly. Another quick goal from Comtois tied the game just 22 seconds into the second period.Comtois, who was a healthy scratch for the first time this season in Monday’s game between the teams, has 10 goals to lead the Ducks.QUICK STARTThe game started at 4:30 p.m. Central time as the first game of a TV tripleheader. The teams were ready for the start with two goals and two fights within the first 9:34 of the game.On the fighting side, Minnesota’s Joseph Cramarossa and Anaheim’s Max Jones first dropped the gloves. Eleven seconds later, Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf challenged Wild defenseman Carson Soucy to fight after Soucy leveled Troy Terry with a hit.Soucy wasn’t penalized for the hit. Getzlaf was given an instigator penalty, a 10-minute misconduct and the two were assessed fighting penalties.COVID CONCERNSAfter playing each other on Monday, Anaheim and Minnesota each placed players in the league’s COVID-19 protocols. Zach Parise was placed on the COVID Protocol Related Absence List on Wednesday, with Cramarossa recalled from the taxi squad to take Parise’s spot in the lineup.The Ducks had four players enter the protocol on Tuesday, including three who were in uniform for Monday’s game. Danton Heinen, Ben Hutton, Jacob Larsson and Anthony Stolarz joined the list. Hutton and Larsson, a pair of defensemen, and Stolarz, the backup goaltender, were in the lineup on Monday.Ducks: Continue their season-long trip on Friday at St. Louis, the first of two games between the teams.Wild: Finish their three-game homestand Thursday against the Blues.___Anaheim DucksNhlHockeyST. PaulJohn GibsonAPThe Minnesota WildThe Anaheim Ducks 3-2NHLCOVIDSt. LouisPassesDefensemenST. PAULMinn.Jared SpurgeonNico SturmCam TalbotRyan SuterMax ComtoisRyan MillerNick BjugstadJoseph CramarossaRyan GetzlafCarson SoucyTroy TerryZach PariseDanton HeinenJacob LarssonAnthony Stolarz

LAKEPORT — Without aid of a hit in the top of the eighth inning, the Colusa Redhawks manufactured two runs to edge the Clear Lake Cardinals 7-5 in non-league varsity baseball action Tuesday afternoon in Lakeport. While the Cardinals (0-3) couldn’t come up with their first win of the 2021...Read Full StoryBaseballThe Colusa RedhawksFirst Day Of FallThe Clear Lake Cardinals5-allClear Lake 's SmartInningsLake County OpponentsHomeMiddletownFreshman Hank OllenbergerRyan OllenbergerUpper LakeBatsmanConnor JohnsonChristian OliverTyler Moss

Perhaps your love for pirate adventures started with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. After all, Pirates of the Caribbean changed action movies and no one noticed until decades later. Or maybe you were already into pirates thanks to Muppets Treasure Island, which preceded its fellow pirate blockbuster by seven years, coming out in 1996. Even before that, Disney's adaptation of Peter Pan and Robin Williams-starring Hook (which came out in 1991) portrayed pirate adventures as great if potentially fatal fun to its impressionable audience. And that audience is still hungry for more pirate tales.Read Full StoryBlack PeopleHuluTv SeriesDisney MoviesAction MoviesTalesSTARZUmbrella AcademyBritishDisneyfiedMuppets Treasure IslandBlack SailsWindward MaroonsPirate AdventuresPirate LifeRobin WilliamsRobert Louis StevensonLuke ArnoldChris FisherTom HopperCharles VaneZach McgowanToby SchmitzAnne BonnyClara PagetBlackbeardRay StevensonBenjamin HornigoldToby Stephens

DEBRA BIELA BEGAN forming bands in her parent’s basement in Waterbury, Conn. — an hour and a half north of New York City — at age 11 or 12. By 16 she had landed her first real gig and at 18, after forming a band with her sister, she hit the road. Flash forward 40 years. Ms. Biela no longer lives the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle that saw her sleeping in parking lots, going gig to gig in a repurposed school bus or touring the U.S. and Europe and opening for acts such as the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry and Buddy Guy.Read Full StoryRock BandSoul MusicJazz MusicMusic PerformanceChuck BassRobert MorrisDeb & The DynamicsItalianDoc Ford 'sDogtooth Sports BarSugarWikipediaEmerson , Lake & PalmerBert 's Bar & GrillRed Salon And SpaChuck BerryBuddy GuyGlenn MillerFrank SinatraLouis ArmstrongDeborah ColemanRobert JohnsonDylan YoungMichael BaerJanis Ian

St. Louis police detective Luther Hall was brutally beaten while working undercover at a protest against police brutality in September 2017. Now three fellow officers are on trial for the assault, which they claim was a case of mistaken identify. One of the officers already pleaded guilty and admitted to lying on the stand. Lauren Trager, an investigative reporter with CBS affiliate KMOV, joins Anne-Marie Green on 'CBSN AM' with more on the case.Read Full StoryPolice BrutalitySt. Louis PoliceKmovCbsnRacial InjusticeST. Louis PoliceThe AssaultProtestLuther HallCBS Affiliate KMOVLauren TragerStandAnne-Marie Green