Posted on 04/16/2016 6:51:36 AM PDT by ebb tide
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday, calling the short visit an "honor and a joy."
"Today certainly was the highlight of the trip," Sanders told NBC News of his 6 a.m. (midnight ET) meeting with the pontiff outside the papal residence's breakfast room.
He called the pope "one of the great leaders in this world."
"In terms of economic justice, the need to combat climate change — nobody in the world has been more profound and articulate than the pope, and I'm delighted to go forward with him on those issues," said Sanders, who has made wealth inequality a cornerstone of his campaign.
Sanders was at the Vatican to attend a meeting about social justice and economic issues. Later on Saturday, Pope Francis flew to the Greek island of Lesbos to highlight the plight of migrants and refugees struggling to get into Europe.
Sanders, who is aiming to continue cutting into rival Hillary Clinton's significant lead in delegates ahead of the crucial New York primary this week, denied that it had been mistake to take time out of his campaign to fly to Europe.
"I am a great admirer of Pope Francis and when I received this invitation, I believe that I would've kicked myself for the rest of my life if I did not attend a conference here in the Vatican to deal with issues that have been important to me for decades," he said.
Sanders has acknowledged he disagrees with the Catholic Church's teachings on some social issues, such as gay marriage, but has praised Pope Francis for "injecting a moral consequence into the economy."
When NBC News asked whether the trip to the Vatican was an attempt to win a "papal endorsement," Sanders responded: "Oh God no. Not God no!"
Then he laughed, adding: "That just came out."
Two mentally unstable redistributionists who hate the people who work for a living.
You’re exactly right. And I’m Catholic.
I wonder of Bernie told Francis how to make the Catholic Church into a truly secular humanist organization and to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ and understand that socialism, that JPII fought was just a ‘misguided’ mission?
sarcasm level of the above comment is 198%
http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2016/04/pope-bergoglio-meets-with-bernie.html
Pope Bergoglio meets with Bernie Sanders - a blatant interference in the United States election - gives cover to American Catholics to vote for a Marxist
Bernie Sanders, the socialist American candidate for President who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, met for five minutes in a private meeting with Jorge Bergoglio, Bishop of Rome.
Sanders, an atheist Jew and advocate of the killing of babies up to the moment of birth said, “It was a real honour for me, for my wife and I to spend time with him. I think he is one of the extraordinary figures not only in the world today but in modern world history.”
This is the second time that the Bishop of Rome has interfered in the American election, first calling anyone that would build a wall to keep illegal migrants out of the United States as not being “Christian” referring directly to Donald Trump.
Both of these actions on the part of Jorge Bergoglio will give cover to leftist American Catholics who now will vote for the socialist, abortion promoter, sodomic marriage advocate and property-confiscating believer with the Pope’s blessing. That is the underlay of this action.
Abortion is an abomination before God and socialism has been condemned as “evil” by the Church beginning with Pope Leo XIII in Quod Apostolici Muneris.
It is also worth noting that no other candidate for American President, other than Sanders, has been interviewed by Thomas Rosica of Salt + Light.
Disgraceful interference in the US election.
Which one of those two is the useful idiot. The thought occurs to me is that they both are.
The high principles and moral clarity of all involved are clear from the words of Fr. Lombardi:
“The Holy Father never intended to infer that Mr. Trump is not Christian.”
“The pope has no interest in influencing the presidential election process in the US.”
“Mr. Sanders will attend a Vatican conference on peace, but he was invited by the organizers not by the pope.”
“The pope has no plans whatsoever to meet Mr. Sanders during his time in Rome.”
Lombardi is to Francis as Chris Matthews is to Obama.
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