Posted on 04/16/2016 9:32:30 AM PDT by Fasceto
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen.Bernie Sanders was invited to Vatican City to make a speech about income inequality. Despite the Vatican initially saying there would be no meeting between Sanders and Pope Francis, one happened anyway Saturday morning.
Because of the political nature of the meeting, the Vatican initially had tried to distance itself from Sanders' visit, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane. But the Pope did meet Sanders and his wife in a brief meeting.
On a terrace overlooking Vatican City, Sanders told CBS News "beauty" "resonated" from Pope Francis.
"Are there pictures of this meeting with the pope, or was it behind closed doors?" Doane asked.
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Wresting those votes from hillary is important. They're more likely to vote for Trump in November, since Sanders will lose the rigged Democratic nomination.
when you’re running for President, everything you do is political
Zatso? Then it is they only thing a leftist has ever done that wasn’t political!
Missed his chance for a memorable moment. He could have stood up and demand that the Pontif “tear down these walls!”.
Not political?? Does that mean Bernie is converting to Catholicism??
How close was the Varican in the 1940’s to the predominant socialist party (Nazi) in Europe?
A purely spiritual experience for the devoted secular Jew.
Commiescum of a feather flock together.
This new pope is a product of Brazil’s unique brand of degenerate, mouth breeding, snot gobbling, thumb sucking commiescumism. It’s not much of a wonder that he’d find mutual interest in an American version of same.
Yeh, right! And the primary was not rigged in Colorado. Uh huh!
I was thinking the him being a Jew thing just leaves really politics or conversion.........
Commiescumism is the great uniter for commiescum types.
With commiescum, ideology comes before race, religion, family or country.
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