Once again, Pope Francis has given us an Exhortation. As you can see by the word cloud above, the real message hiding in Gaudete et exultate is "Saint Can Love Life, Jesus Lord, God, Others with Good Will" Not as eloquent as the last word cloud, and perhaps can be rearranged. Any takers in the comments? Once again though, nice idea, telling us to embrace holiness, but the problems are in the details. I find it problematic that in Gaudete et exsultate , a quick word search for "repentance", "penance" and "confession" are not mentioned as a path to holiness, "conversion" is mentioned only once as one possible path to holiness, and the Eucharist and Reconciliation and devotions are only mentioned as a path to sanctification "we are familiar with" and thus, apparently, don't need to be mentioned in depth (Paragraph 110). In a world where 5/6 Catholics reject weekly Mass, I think that is a horrible assumption that we ...
