Bernie Sanders Won't Be Only Socialist at Vatican Conference
By Taylor Wofford
4/11/16 at 4:14 PM
Later this week, academics, theologians and world leaders will assemble in Rome to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's Centesimus Annus, an encyclical celebrating the collapse of Communism in Europe. In it, the Polish-born pontiff lauded free markets and criticized socialism.
Among the guests: Bernie Sanders, the son of Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution in Poland.
The list may be short on Brooklyn natives, but Sanders won't be alone among the socialists, a reflection of the left leaning views of Pope Francis, who has put his stamp on the church’s social policies just as he did with its family policies in last week’s mammoth encyclical.
In attendance will be two socialist heads of state from Latin America, a handful of left-leaning economists and Sanders, who describes himself as a "democratic socialist."
http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-socialist-pope-francis-vatican-conference-446501
1:15 video at link.
