2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI called the pope - told him - "hey man, I'm going to drop by - see you soon"
he said - "great - but - please leave hillary at home"
then he said - "Bernie is coming soon - you should come then"
"cool - should I bring anything"
"No - Bernie is sending me a bumper sticker - I got everything else I could dream of - see you soon"
LexVegas
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(31,700 posts)VATICAN CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was invited to speak at an April 15 Vatican event by the Vatican, a senior papal official said on Friday, denying a report that Sanders had invited himself.
"I deny that. It was not that way," Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo told Reuters in a telephone interview while he was traveling in New York. Sorondo, a close aide to Pope Francis, is chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the event.
He said it was his idea to invite Sanders.
A Bloomberg report quoted Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that Sanders had broken with protocol by failing to contact her office first.
"This is not true and she knows it. I invited him with her consensus," said Sorondo, who is senior to Archer.
An invitation to Sanders dated March 30, which was emailed to Reuters, was signed by Sorondo and also included Archer's name.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-papal-official-untrue-sanders-invited-himself-vatican-173414032.html
KingFlorez
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(4,883 posts)KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Since you are going you really should share that information with us.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)we are going to break bread