The Road to Holiness

I realize that traffic accidents are a serious problem around the world, and that the Gospel has implications for every dimension of the common good.  Still, when I saw a Vatican document on traffic safety with a section heading "Christ is the Way, He is the Road," I thought it was from The Onion.  Then I saw it referenced at multiple blogs, so I decided to check it out.  Seems to be real.  Here is an excerpt from the Vatican's Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road: 

From Christian commitment in places of road and rail transport, which we call Pastoral Care of the Road, also arises the duty to draw up and promote a fitting and corresponding expression of “spirituality”, rooted in the Word of God. Such spirituality sheds the necessary light to give meaning to the whole of life, stemming precisely from the experience of road and rail transport. The contemporary phenomenon of mobility should be experienced by Christians, by exercising the theological and cardinal virtues. For the faithful, the road also becomes a path to holiness.

Perhaps sprawl isn't so bad after all . . .