The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion that began in the 12th century and became more popular after Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 1670s, ...

On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we celebrate what Pope Benedict in 2008 called the “center of the faith.” That might seem a little overstated, if we erroneously understand devotion to ...

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in the Forest Hills section of the Queens borough of New York. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) ...

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus takes on special significance this year, centenary year of the extension of the feast to the whole world. The Church, with traditional prudence and reserve, did ...

Pope Francis' new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is being hailed as "a simple and powerful cure" for a fractured world, said the president of the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference -- and that ...

Pope Francis announced that he is preparing a document on the Sacred Heart of Jesus to "illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal, but also to say something significant to a world that seems to have ...

Since she was a little girl, the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue at Sacred Heart Hospital has represented faith to Jean Kurtz. Growing up in a German-American family in a house on Fifth Street in ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A large crowd of community members gathered outside St. Luke's Sacred Heart in Allentown to witness the blessing and rededication of the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue. The statue has ...

Editor's note: "Evolving Religious Life," a new series from Global Sisters Report, is exploring how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations in transition and new forms of ...

Greater Cincinnati motorists may have noticed billboards that read "June is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus" peppering highways across the metro region this month. The billboard language has ...

When I hear the accusation of being a bleeding heart, I am encouraged that I am probably on the right track, writes El Paso ...

The president of the Spanish bishops' conference, Archbishop Luis Argüello of Valladolid, reacted to Spanish public television's New Year's program in which a host mocked an image of the Sacred Heart ...