Pope meets with Bernie Sanders, thanks him for addressing Vatican on the 'moral economy'
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis met US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday morning before leaving for a visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, a participant at the meeting said.
Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs told Reuters that the meeting took place in the Vatican guesthouse where the pope lives and where Sanders had spent the night after addressing a Vatican conference on social justice.
The Vatican had said before the conference that a meeting was not planned. Sachs said Sanders, who was accompanied by his wife, and the pope spoke for about five minutes. Sachs, his wife and a Vatican official were also in the room.
Sachs, who has advised the United Nations on climate change, said Sanders thanked the pope for his pronouncements on the need for morality in the global economy and statements in defense of the environment.
http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Pope-meets-with-Bernie-Sanders-thanks-him-for-addressing-Vatican-on-the-moral-economy-451397
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I'm not sure where anybody got that impression.
But, as a practicing Catholic, she has liked some of the things that this Pope has said about the manufacture of weapons.
Merely agreeing with the Pope on an issue does not make somebody a "Bernie detractor".
I'm not sure how to make judgments about what should and shouldn't come up when listening to Catholics give their opinions.
When I listen to others voicing their unsolicited opinions, I don't determine what "comes up".
I just listen.
Were you expecting me to do something different?
