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

O sacred heart of Jesus, mercifully accept the prayer which I now make to you for help in the moment of my death, when at its approach all my senses shall fail me. When, therefore, O kind and ...

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.

Pope Francis has released a new encyclical “Dilexit Nos” (He Loved Us) about the Sacred Heart ... efficacious, or that his mercy was not sufficiently powerful” (No. 195). Only Jesus saves ...

The encyclical, issued on Oct. 24, examines the transformative power of Jesus’ heart as a font of healing for a divided world. Painting of the Sacred Heart ... offers a prayer in the encyclical ...

Everything we do in following Jesus Christ draws its life from the Mass and simultaneously points us back to the Mass.

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

which helped spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus revealing his love of humanity. The social encyclical appeals to the faithful to “meditate” on Jesus Christ’s love in a world in ...

The Sacred Heart of Jesus was one of my father’s favorite devotions ... This is what we mean in the unfortunately ...

The text concludes with this prayer of Pope Francis: "I ask our Lord Jesus Christ to grant that His Sacred Heart may continue to pour forth the streams of living water that can heal the hurt we have ...

On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the importance of the church's ...

BALTIMORE (OSV News) — On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the ...