Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation challenges the Church to turn its face to the world, meet its challenges and refuse to be self-absorbed. It is a calling that his fellow members of the Society of Jesus will recognise, writes a leading Jesuit scholarEvangelii Gaudium is long, rich in ideas, important and extraordinary. Despite its length, it has energy, drive and passion. Although Pope Francis has deftly taken up the fruits of the Synod on the New Evangelisation, the exhortation carries his unique voice and themes. This gives it a freshness combined with an urgency – almost a prophetic urgency – that marks a significant new tone and a new way for the papacy to engage with the people of God. John Paul II, writing in 2001, called upon the Church to put out into the deep.