Since 1899, there have been four papal encyclicals and numerous papal texts dedicated to the Sacred Heart -- a symbol of ...

Dilexit Nos,” meaning “He Loved Us,” describes how devotion to the heart of Christ “reappears in the spiritual journey of ...

In his fourth encyclical, “Dilexit Nos,” Pope Francis calls on believers to rediscover devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ...

While breaking free from “self-reliant moralism”, modern people can find in Christ’s heart “a blazing furnace of divine and ...

When the beloved disciple reclined his head upon the breast of the Savior (cf. Jn 13:25), he heard the beats of divine charity and felt the heat of God's love. Among the Twelve Apostles, ...

To indicate what he is talking about, Pope Francis refers to the character Nikolai Stavrogin in Dostoevsky’s novel Devils ...

Pope Francis is skeptical of artificial intelligence’s effects on humanity, and on Thursday he released an encyclical ...

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, spoke to Vatican News about this new ...

As the Vatican announces the October 24 release of Pope Francis' encyclical Dilexit Nos on the Sacred Heart, Father Étienne Kern, rector of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Paray-le-Monial, France, ...

The approximately 30,000-word encyclical draws extensively from Scripture and tradition, featuring insights from St. Thérèse ...

Pope Francis, your encyclical on the Sacred Heart, “Dilexit Nos,” is beautiful and heartwarming. And for Catholics in the United States, the timing was perfect.

A world that has become “heartless” and indifferent to greed and war, and a Catholic Church in need of revitalizing its ...