If we have grown up Catholic, or even if our conversion or reversion was a few years ago, it is very easy to start taking salvation for granted.

In his fourth encyclical, “Dilexit Nos,” Pope Francis calls on believers to rediscover devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and, through it, to love our brothers and sisters in the church and world.

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

Gerald O'Collins, S.J., the Australian Jesuit theologian who died last week, was a prominent writer in Christology, ecclesiology, spirituality and more in an academic career that spanned seven decades.

In this 1971 article, the late theologian Gerald O’Collins, S.J., treats the search for the “historical Jesus”—and its potential shortcomings and pitfalls.

A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless