They say that no news is good news. Often, the opposite is true as well: good news is no news. The Catholic Church often makes headlines — and rightly so — for doing what it shouldn’t be doing. In recent weeks, dissenting parishes have hosted “Pride Masses” and heterodox nuns have fomented confusion about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. But for every Catholic who struggles to distinguish between the Democratic Party platform and the Catechism, hundreds of others know that June is the month of the Sacred Heart, not Pride Month.
Though the whole month is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church celebrates the devotion in a special way on the nineteenth day after Pentecost. This year, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus fell on June 16. The Dodgers honored the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on the same day, so the United States Council of Catholic Bishops called upon all Catholics to offer up prayers of “reparation for the blasphemies against our Lord we see in our culture today.” (READ MORE: My Religion Is Not Your Costume)
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a group that, as the bishops wrote, display “lewdness and vulgarity in mocking our Lord, His Mother, and consecrated women …. This is not just offensive and painful to Christians everywhere; it is blasphemy.”
“It has been heartening to see so many faithful Catholics and others of good will stand up to say that what this group does is wrong, and it is wrong to honor them,” the bishops wrote.
Though secular culture has chosen June as the month to celebrate the trite tautology “Love is love,” promoting total sexual freedom. But the Catholic Church has celebrated the month of the Sacred Heart for centuries. It is a month dedicated to the salvific love of Christ, St. John Paul II, who had a special devotion to the Sacred Heart, said, “This feast reminds us of the mystery of the love of God for the people of all times.”
It is not a naive love, but rather a sacrificial love that suffers much for its beloved. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains:
The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus just as it invokes his most holy name. It adores the incarnate Word and his Heart which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins.
The devotion to the Sacred Heart first arose in the eleventh century, and Pope Leo XIII consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1899. He described the consecration as a means of “establish[ing] or draw[ing] tighter the bonds which naturally connect public affairs with God.”
Though it might not be the most glamorous or newsworthy event of the past week, it is worth recalling that faithful Catholics across the nation gathered together in prayer to rededicate themselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, even as LGBTQ activists gather at Pride parades. Catholic fidelity will never make as many headlines as Catholic infidelity will, but we can’t forget about the silent majority of faithful believers who reject gender ideology and its accompanying insanity in favor of the love of Christ.
Mary Frances Myler is a postgraduate fellow with the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.
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