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kennetha

(3,666 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:16 PM Apr 2016

No Evidence Bernie will be "Speaking" at Vatican Conference

He's listed only as one among the "Other Participants" -- not as a Participant.

The Participants are the people who are there to give plenary talks or to respond to those talks. Those are the people who are speaking, I would guess. They even get head shots in the program.

The "other participants" are probably there to listen and maybe raise a question from the floor.

Kind of a low level thing for a man who fancy himself the next leader of the free world. I mean he gets billing below the Presidents of Ecuador and Bolivia. Poor guy.

Check out the conference program and Bernie's billing:



Other Participants

Anthony ANNETT
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Advisor at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York
Norbert ARNTZ
President of the Board of the Theology and Politics Institute, Münster, Germany
Fernando De La IGLESIA VIGUIRISTI
Associate Professor, Pontifical Gregorian University, Vatican City
Rocco MIMMO
Ambrose Centre For Religious Liberty, Founder and Chairman, Sydney, Australia
Bernard SANDERS
United States Senator from Vermont, candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election


http://www.pass.va/content/dam/scienzesociali/booklet/centesimus_annus.pdf
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Lodestar

(2,388 posts)
7. ..." authoritative voice from North America"
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:22 PM
Apr 2016

“We are interested in having him because we have two presidents coming from Latin America, I thought it would be good to have an authoritative voice from North America,” Sanchez Sorondo said. Asked when he when the invitation was extended, he said, “Quite some time ago.”

kennetha

(3,666 posts)
12. Did you read the conference brochure
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:26 PM
Apr 2016

Did you see what Bernie's role is?

Where is his speaking slot? Nowhere to be found.

Nanjeanne

(4,969 posts)
18. As an event planner - many "brochures" are updated at the last minute as agendas are fluid.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:55 PM
Apr 2016

Those attending will get the most up-to-date agenda. Or he could be participating on a panel now that he has accepted the invitation. They aren't listing him as a participant, other or not - if he is just sitting in the audience or - as you probably would prefer - handing out name badges at the registration desk.

But even if he doesn't have an entire slot to himself - here are some bios on the Other Participants that you seem to want to diminish:

Tony Annett is a Climate Change and Sustainable Development Advisor at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Working closely with Religions for Peace, he leads the Earth Institute’s initiative to strengthen the engagement of the world’s religious communities in the climate change and sustainable development agenda. Trained as an economist, Tony has a keen interest in Catholic social teaching and in the intersection of ethics and economics more broadly.

Tony spent sixteen years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, with stints in the European, Fiscal Affairs, and Communications departments. In this role, he worked as an economist on a variety of countries and regions – including Bulgaria, Ghana, Euro Area, Iceland, Jordan, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. Most recently, he worked for five years as speechwriter to two successive Managing Directors, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christine Lagarde.

Tony received his B.A. (First Class Honors, Gold Medal) from Trinity College Dublin in 1991, his M.Litt. from Trinity College Dublin in 1993, and his Ph. D. in economics from Columbia University in 1998. He is also a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a papal order of chivalry.


This is a translation so may have incorrect grammar and spelling.
Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi Academic training • Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Deusto (1976) • Degree in Moral Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1987) • Doctor in Economic Theory from Georgetown University, Washington, DC (1993). Biography He has been president of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS) Vice Chancellor of the University of Deusto, a member of the Research Board of the UD, the CLASSROOM Ethics UD, director of the Department of Economics at ESTE, Director PhD program at ESTE, and coordinator of Functional Areas and Services Campus San Sebastián. He is currently director of the magazine Business Studies, Member of the Board of IAJBS, and the CJBE, a member of the Board of Reason and Faith. Professor of UD imparts the Macroeconomics, International Economic Theory and Development subjects today: facts and theories in the DBS. He is a Jesuit since 1976


Mr Rocco Mimmo, Founder & Chairman, Ambrose Centre For Religious Liberty

Rocky is a Sydney based lawyer. He has a Masters Degree in International Law from the University of NSW. His post graduate Masters studies included an emphasis on Human Rights Law. He is married with 8 children.

He has devoted his adult life to working on social issues and running organisation attempting to influence public decision makers on critical moral social issues. On these social moral issues, Rocky works in the background in and around politics. Although not party politically aligned, he can boast to being very well connected to both sides of politics at the Federal and State level. Rocky has made numerous written submissions and frequently been invited to give oral submissions to Parliamentary Committees Inquiries into contentious moral and social matters. He has published several articles arguing the case for religious liberty and human rights. After many years of involvement in the moral social issues and noticing the decline and deterioration of religious and cultural values, Rocky founded the Ambrose Centre For Religious Liberty in 2007. The Ambrose Centre was launched in Sydney in April 2009.


Yup . . . slackers . . . all of 'em!
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
9. This so pisses me off. Been hearing a little all day. I see this video. A lie... How is it not?
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:24 PM
Apr 2016

He knew he was not speaking to the Pope, meeting the Pope. He knew it.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
14. Seriously? This is the man that speaks for the Pope. Not Sanders.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:31 PM
Apr 2016
Father Federico Lombardi, the Pope’s spokesman, said Sanders had been invited “not by the pope but by the pontifical academy of social sciences.” Lombardi told the Italian news agency Ansa: “For the moment there is no expectation that there will also be a meeting with the pope.”


Sanders knows he is not meeting with the Pope, yet says he is meeting with the Pope. How is that not a lie?

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
16. Yes ... you're correct. It's a lie. He's intentionally misleading.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:39 PM
Apr 2016

It's like that time I was invited to DC to visit the White House and to see President Obama.

Totally true!

Nanjeanne

(4,969 posts)
17. Oh well - then if it's such a nothing thing - you don't have to spend any more time looking for
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:49 PM
Apr 2016

reasons to diminish it.

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