Outside The Asylum

While this is all true, I've got another better option:  to Avoid the Divorce Industrial Complex, Don't get divorced. The Divorce Gap - The Atlantic : 'via Blog this'

The Exhortation Amoris Laetitia has been out for a few weeks now. I've done several hours of reading and analysis on it, including a word cloud: Which gives us a phrase that I'd call the central message of this Exhortation: Family Can Love Life. But what nags me isn't what is in this most excellent description of the state of marriage in the world. Even the "problematic" Chapter 8 is at least talking about the real experience some people have with irregular, less than ideal marriage. No, what bugs me is one word that was left out: Repentance It occurs to me though that there are two possible explanations for this word being missing, one of which is mildly irritating, and the second of which is downright frightening: 1. Mildly irritating to those of us in North America and Europe who are serious about our marriages and faith is that our small-t traditional language of sin and repentance is a foreign concept to Pope Francis. Not that he doesn't have the...

Truly, I say unto you, The Last Shall Be First is fullfilled on the Internet.

It seems that even Pope Benedict can be clarified with this study method in interesting ways.

I really like this shortcut for understanding Pope Francis. Will it also work for this document that was partially written by Pope Benedict?

My previous Word Cloud was useful to people, so I'm going to start working my way backwards, starting with Laudato Si and going back to Rerum Novarum. Here is Laudato Si- and what we really should be concentrating on when we consider the environment.

Word Frequency list of Amoris Laetita , Generated by WordClouds.com 341 family 277 can 262 life 227 God 224 one 212 children 185 marriage 174 Church