Sunday, April 17, 2016

It's Sunday

They said he wasn't going to get to meet Pope Frank, but he did. If only for five minutes.
Sanders travelled to Rome to attend a Vatican conference on economic inequality and climate change.

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Sanders and his wife, Jane, stayed overnight at the papal residence, in the Domus Santa Marta hotel in the Vatican gardens, on the same floor as the pope.

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[He ] told reporters he had met the pontiff on Saturday morning and discussed the need to inject morality and justice into the world economy, a view Sanders says he and the pope both share.

“I told him that I was incredibly appreciative of the incredible role that he is playing in this planet in discussing issues about the need for an economy based on morality, not greed,” Sanders said.

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The encounter was not Pope Francis’s first brush with the US presidential race. In February, the leader of the Catholic church waded into the contest when he questioned Republican frontrunner Donal Trump’s faith. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian,” the Pope said.

  Guardian
The Pope has weighed in.

First the bird, now the Pope. What will Hillary do?!
Dr Jeffrey Sachs, a Sanders foreign policy adviser and adviser to the UN on climate change, said there were no photographs taken of the meeting.
So maybe it never happened. Run with that, Hill.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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