“The Importance of the Heart”: Pope Francis’s New Encyclical
“The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse, who can understand it?”


This week I am returning from a retreat in which I was happy to check out of the constant news cycle from the Vatican during the latest installment of “meeting about meeting.” I spent two days editing articles about the joy of the faith: the history of music, Romanitas, Halloween, and more. I wasn’t yet ready to plunge back into the latest thing from the Vatican. But then I saw the headline about…