St. Margaret Mary Alacoque — whose feast day is celebrated in the Church on Oct. 16 — was a French nun responsible for spreading the devotion of the Sacred Heart throughout the Western Church.

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 ...

Since she was a little girl, the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue at Sacred Heart Hospital has represented faith to Jean Kurtz.

8. Fervent souls shall rise speedily to great perfection. 9. I will bless those places wherein the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and venerated. 10. I will give to priests the power to ...

emphasizes importance to devotion to the Sacred Heart. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the “Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” was the first to promulgate this devotion.

Using the heart as a powerful representation of the embodied core of human existence has biblical, and even pre-Christian roots. Pope Francis makes this exceedingly clear in what is in many ways a ...

"It was remarkable how everything had gotten fried, but the statue of The Virgin Mary and another statue of Saint Joseph were ... "Our home is dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus and always ...

What is the Eucharist? Who may and may not receive the Eucharist? And under what circumstances? These important questions for Catholics in the United States have been in the news quite a bit over ...

Earlier this week, leaders at St. Mary’s Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church found a beloved statue vandalized. They say the incident happened on Tuesday when the statue was found ...