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The Latest: Sanders Says No Plans yet to Meet the Pope
AP ^ | April 8, 2016 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/08/2016 10:00:17 AM PDT by Fasceto

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he would "very much like to" meet Pope Francis when he travels to the Vatican next week but he has not received an official invitation from the Catholic leader.

It's "not yet clear," Sanders told journalists in New York Friday, saying this pope is someone he has "enormous respect for in terms of the mental consciousness that he's raising."

Sanders' campaign released a statement Friday saying that Sanders, who is the first Jewish candidate ever to win a presidential primary, will address a conference next week hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on social, economic and environmental issues.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: news; pope; sanders
Did the Sanders campaign lie about the Pope inviting him to the Vatican? The New York Times reported this morning that the Pope invited him. The headline reads "Bernie Sanders Accepts Pope Francis’s Invitation to Travel to the Vatican." http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-accepts-pope-franciss-invitation-to-travel-to-the-vatican/

It wouldn't be the first time the Communists makes something up.

1 posted on 04/08/2016 10:00:17 AM PDT by Fasceto
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To: Fasceto

Pope favors pro-abortion, pro-gay-agenda candidates.

Shuns and disparages pro-life and pro-family candidates.


2 posted on 04/08/2016 10:04:14 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Fasceto

What are they going to do? Hold a summit of the two biggest atheistic communists in the world?


3 posted on 04/08/2016 10:06:20 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Fasceto

Has anyone seen both of them in the same room at the same time?!! Just sayin’!


4 posted on 04/08/2016 10:07:27 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Fasceto
Okay but when is Sanders going to sit down for lunch with Trump?


5 posted on 04/08/2016 10:11:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Only when and if Trump pays.


6 posted on 04/08/2016 10:20:27 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Fasceto

“enormous respect for in terms of the mental consciousness that he’s raising.”

Popes used to raise spiritual awareness and reverence.


7 posted on 04/08/2016 10:20:42 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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To: Fasceto

He’ll go. Can’t resist the additional votes.


8 posted on 04/08/2016 10:20:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Is the Pope Catholic? NO!


9 posted on 04/08/2016 10:23:40 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Fasceto

The AC meets the FP.

Take your pick.


10 posted on 04/08/2016 10:36:13 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Westbrook

Absolutely true. The Pope just loves long hugs from gay couples, trannies, pro-aborts, and Commies.


11 posted on 04/08/2016 11:22:43 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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