VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has released a new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, highlighting the Church’s wealth of teaching on the devotion, and recommending a renewal of traditional acts of piety and “consolation” to the Sacred Heart, which are born out of a recognition of one’s sins.
Divided into an introduction and five subsequent chapters, Dilexit Nos is “on the human and divine love of the heart of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical is lengthy at 40 pages and with some 227 footnotes.
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Similar to his 2023 apostolic exhortation on St. Thérèse, Dilexit Nos immediately strikes the reader as far more theological than much of the Pope’s other writings, and is replete with quotations from the Church’s history rather than from Francis himself, as has been the norm in his previous writings.
