Vatican Abp organizing Global Education Pact touts pope’s ‘new humanism’ where God ‘withdraws’ Vatican archbishop Vincenzo Zani said Pope Francis’s ‘new humanism’ centers on a God who ‘creates but then withdraws.’ Abp. Vincenzo Zani, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education. ROME, February 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican prelate tasked with organizing the Global Education Pact to be signed at the Vatican on May 14 has explained the theological vision at the heart of Pope Francis’s “new humanism,” in which God withdraws in order to allow for the possibility of human freedom. Speaking to LifeSite at a Global...