Here’s what you need to know about “Dilexit nos,” the new encyclical from Pope Francis about the Sacred Heart.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Homily for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Father Terrance Klein

“There is no going back!” That is the message I am hearing from many delegates during the final week of the Synod on Synodality as they refine the proposals of the draft final document.

Recognizing the doctrinal authority of bishops’ conferences does not mean allowing them to reject the teaching authority of the pope, said the head of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops.

In a world that was coming to understand the structural underpinnings of poverty and violence, Father Gutiérrez was a prophet who saw clearly how the Christian proclamation of salvation involved not merely the afterlife but included human liberation in this life as well.