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Cardinal Parolin: Youth mental health requires structural responses - Vatican News
- Cardinal Parolin said youth mental health requires structured, multidimensional, long-term cooperation, not fragmented measures.
- He linked mental health to education as a pillar of integral human development and social justice.
- Parolin urged that education address interior life, digital culture, and peace as three priorities.
- The cardinal warned against treating mental health as merely a medical issue for healthcare systems.
- Digital technologies offer opportunities to reduce inequalities but risk attention fragmentation and cyberbullying.
- Parolin called for a governance approach to technologies that integrates technical skills with socio-emotional formation.
- Parolin emphasized a crisis of meaning, noting many youths lack a horizon of purpose.
- The Vatican conference gathered education ministers, academics, and international experts at Casina Pio IV.
- He urged governments to prioritise youth mental health with coordinated investments in education, healthcare, and families.
- Parolin echoed Pope Leo XIII’s call for choreographers of hope among religion teachers.
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