Encyclicks
Word Counts
Words Matter
Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si': On Care For Our Common Home, is organized into six Chapters and 246 paragraphs. We note with interest that the most frequently used word or word group, "human/humanity", appears in the encyclical - remarkably - 246 times.
10 words or word groups used most frequently in the text:
- human/humanity 246
- God 175
- world 171
- life/living 169
- environment(al) 155
- creation/creatures/creativity 137
- need(s) 124
- economic/economy 81
- ecological/ecology 76
- technology/technological/technocratic 76
10 words or word groups used infrequently or not at all:
- pollution 9
- degradation 9
- corruption 6
- scarce/scarcity 5
- profits 5
- wealth/wealthier 4
- money 2
- abortion 1
- capitalism 0
- goods and services 0
10 words or word groups used frequently:
- love/loving 65
- relationship(s) 61
- earth 59
- growth/growing 57
- system(s)/ecosystem(s) 57
- poor(er)(est) 57
- society 47
- water 46
- production/productivity 45
- resource(s) 43
10 words or word groups used repeatedly but less frequently:
- responsibility 29
- waste(ful)(ness) 29
- crisis 26
- integral 25
- respect(ful) 22
- justice/injustice(s) 22
- health(y) 21
- market 19
- climate 15
- warm(ing) 13
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