Papal encyclical on Sacred Heart to be released this week
October 21, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis has written an encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the document will be released on October 24, the Vatican has announced.
Entitled Dilexit Nos, this will be the 4th encyclical by Pope Francis. Its release comes during the 350th anniversary of the appearance of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, who made popular the devotion to the Sacred Heart. The encyclical is the Pontiff’s response to a world “which seems to have lost its heart.”
The three previous encyclicals of Pope Francis are Lumen Fidei (2013), which Pope Benedict XVI had begun to draft before his resignation; Laudato Si’ (2015), on the care of the environment; and Fratelli Tutti (2020), on universal brotherhood.
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