Francis, a pope devoid of nostalgia, concerned with church renewal, attentive to the signs of the times and totally committed to the Second Vatican Council, sees in an old devotion a vision of the Church’s future
15 August 2024, The Tablet
God’s flaming heart
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
Pompeo Batoni’s 1767 painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Jesuit Church of Il Gesù in Rome.
image: alamy/the picture art collection.
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