Angelus News | April 19-26, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 15
People hold candles during the Easter Vigil service at Westminster Cathedral on April 4, 2015, in London, England. Also known as the Paschal Vigil, the nocturnal liturgy celebrating the victory of Jesus Christ over death was for early Christians a night full of anticipation and dramatic symbols, rites, and singing. On page 10, contributing editor Mike Aquilina takes us back to the experience of the primitive Church to understand why the vigil was “the night of nights” for those Christians — and why it should still be for us, too. On page 16, Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil speaks to local catechumens about their road to conversion and why they’re looking forward to the “new life” of the baptism they’ll receive at this year’s Easter Vigil.
People hold candles during the Easter Vigil service at Westminster Cathedral on April 4, 2015, in London, England. Also known as the Paschal Vigil, the nocturnal liturgy celebrating the victory of Jesus Christ over death was for early Christians a night full of anticipation and dramatic symbols, rites, and singing. On page 10, contributing editor Mike Aquilina takes us back to the experience of the primitive Church to understand why the vigil was “the night of nights” for those Christians — and why it should still be for us, too. On page 16, Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil speaks to local catechumens about their road to conversion and why they’re looking forward to the “new life” of the baptism they’ll receive at this year’s Easter Vigil.
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NATION<br />
Ohio enacts<br />
heartbeat law<br />
A bill making inducing or<br />
performing an abortion after<br />
detection of a fetal heartbeat a<br />
fifth-degree felony was signed<br />
into law <strong>April</strong> 11 by Ohio’s<br />
governor after passing the state<br />
legislature.<br />
Although former Ohio Gov.<br />
John Kasich had twice vetoed<br />
two previous attempts to enact<br />
similar legislation, Republican<br />
Gov. Mike DeWine stayed true<br />
to a campaign promise to sign<br />
such a bill. Pro-life groups are<br />
now preparing to protect the<br />
law against potential lawsuits.<br />
“If pro-abortion lobbies<br />
present a legal challenge to<br />
this act,” Mark Harrington,<br />
president of the pro-life group<br />
Created Equal, told Catholic<br />
<strong>News</strong> Agency, “we will defend<br />
these babies all the way up to<br />
the Supreme Court.” <br />
Sister Mary Jo Sobieck with Marian Catholic High School students in Chicago at an <strong>April</strong> 8 card<br />
signing.<br />
‘Curveball queen’<br />
gets her own card<br />
Baseball card collectors, prepare.<br />
Sister Mary Jo will be arriving in foil<br />
envelopes soon.<br />
Dominican Sister Mary Jo Sobieck<br />
achieved viral fame last summer<br />
when she threw a perfect pitch before<br />
a Chicago White Sox game. The<br />
sister, a theology teacher at Chicago’s<br />
Marian Catholic High School, now<br />
has her own bobblehead and soon<br />
— thanks to baseball card company<br />
Topps — will be featured on a baseball<br />
card.<br />
Topps paid Sobieck $1,000 to feature<br />
her in its Allen & Ginter series of pop<br />
culture icons and historical figures.<br />
Sobieck swill donate the funds to a<br />
scholarship fund named after her,<br />
supporting students at Marian Catholic.<br />
“It’s so out there,” Sobieck told the<br />
Chicago Tribune, referencing her<br />
baseball card. “As a kid and athlete<br />
growing up, you always went to the<br />
store and bought the baseball cards<br />
and bubblegum.” <br />
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE/KAREN CALLAWAY, CATHOLIC NEW WORLD<br />
‘Unplanned’ already making an impact<br />
ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK<br />
HOLY HOUSING — Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York blesses the<br />
new St. Augustine Terrace housing project complex at the site of a<br />
former church in the Bronx <strong>April</strong> 8. The new low-income housing<br />
development is administered by Catholic Homes New York, part of<br />
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.<br />
A hotline for women looking to reverse chemical<br />
abortions has seen a 30 percent increase in calls since<br />
the release of “Unplanned,” a film about the life of<br />
pro-life advocate Abby Johnson.<br />
The newly released film closes with an on-screen<br />
display of the Heartbeat International Abortion Pill<br />
Rescue Network (APRN) “Options Line,” which connects<br />
callers to a variety of pro-life resources.<br />
“Unplanned” features a scene that both displays a<br />
chemical abortion and explains how such a procedure<br />
can be reversed.<br />
“We do believe that [the sudden surge] was attributed<br />
to ‘Unplanned’ specifically,” Andrew Trudden, Heartbeat<br />
International’s director of communications and<br />
marketing, told Catholic <strong>News</strong> Agency (CNA).<br />
“Many women who have chosen abortion wish they<br />
could go back and change their decision,” ‘Unplanned’<br />
co-writer and director Chuck Kozelman told<br />
CNA. “What we’re seeing is that many of the women<br />
who still are capable of reversing that decision are<br />
doing so.” <br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>19</strong>-<strong>26</strong>, 20<strong>19</strong> • ANGELUS • 7
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