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Why Pope Francis's Gaudete et Exsultate won't make you Holy, but could help you lose your Salvation?

Pope Francis's document Gaudete et Exsultate, which is supposed to be a call to holiness, has a lot of flowery religious Catholic language and even mentions prayer. This is why Dan Hitchens in First Things says of the document "there is an orthodox interpretation," but then writes: "But there is a different interpretation: that when someone says 'The Church teaches that X is intrinsically wrong,' he is probably a bit of a Pharisee. The history of Amoris Laetitia suggests that more expansive interpretation often gains the upper hand." (First Things, "An Ambiguous Exhortation," 4-12-18) Hitchens suggests that this papal document is mocking those Catholics who believe and teach the infallible moral doctrines of Divine Revelation. Obviously if one knowingly rejects Divine Revelation, one rejects God and loses his salvation. But there is another reason why Gaudete et Exsultate will not make you holy and could help you lose your salvation.