20 February 2020 | Address of His Holiness

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION (FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS)

Clementine Hall

[…] With regard to method, education is an inclusive movement. An inclusion
that reaches out to all the excluded: those who are excluded due to poverty,
vulnerability caused by war, famine and natural disasters, by social selectivity,
and family and existential difficulties. An inclusion that is made tangible in
educational action in favour of refugees, victims of human trafficking, and
migrants, without distinction on the basis of sex, religion or ethnicity. Inclusion is
not a modern invention, but it is an integral part of the Christian salvific
message. Nowadays it is necessary to accelerate this inclusive movement of
education to counter the throwaway culture, which originates from the denial of
fraternity as a constitutive element of humanity. […]