Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, addressed the United Nations’ Transforming Education Summit.

Pope Francis first outlined his vision for a Global Compact on Education in a September 2019 message. “The Pope has invited everyone (young people, teachers, political leaders, and civil society) to be protagonists of this alliance, making a personal and societal commitment to cultivate together the dream of a humanism in solidarity, responding to human expectations and God’s plan,” Cardinal Parolin said at the UN summit.