A summary of Vaticangate
If you're like me and had other stuff to do in the past 24 hours other than keep up with all the ins and outs of Bernie's travel plans to
Italy, you may find this summary helpful. It's told entirely through twitter posts, which all good DUers know is the incontrovertible source of truth.
https://storify.com/Cajsa/sanders-and-the-vatican-story
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The Pope rocks. 
The Pope is Argentine, not some bloody Englishman.
... is petty, childish, and reeks of desperation.
Yeah sure!
What's your next argument? Nanny nanny boo boo?
Cry me a fucking river.
I've also read a dozen articles on what the conference will be concerned with.
Idolatry of money, climate change and reintroducing morality into financial regulation.
There is a somewhat uncanny overlap between the way Bernie and Francis talk about economic issues. One of the first pieces of writing the pope released during his tenure, Evangelii Gaudium, is all about the greed and fundamental corruption at the heart of the global economy. Both men speak with passion about poverty and talk about labor and wages in moral terms. And Sanders has often praised the pope, including after the pontiff addressed the U.S. Congress in September.
Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who is presenting at the event, said in a phone interview that he helped the Vatican reach out to Bernie Sanders in March, and he doesn’t know why Archer alleged that the Sanders campaign initiated the gig. “The academy sent the invitation, it’s pure and simple,” he said. “A lot of people in the Vatican respect him a lot. He is speaking in the same kind of moral themes that Pope Francis, and the social teachings of the Church, promote, which is a moral economy.” A representative who works with Sachs also passed along an official invitation from Sanchez Sorondo to Sanders dated on March 30......
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/bernie-heads-to-the-vatican/477471/
The pope is usually reluctant to be seen as endorsing candidates or getting involved in national politics, but he caused a stir during his recent trip the US, when he called on Congress to tackle climate change and embrace immigration.
Sanders believes the pope’s unusually political visit in September helped lend legitimacy to his own message of “democratic socialism”, which he argues is much more in tune with the tradition of American political reformers like Franklin Roosevelt than is often appreciated.
The senator said he plans to talk “about the idolatry of money and the dangers to our culture of being seduced by the worship of money” during his visit to the Vatican on Friday.
He also said the evidence of offshore banking activity revealed by the Guardian and other news outlets this week in the Panama Papers underlined why it was important to reintroduce morality into financial regulation.
“It is not going to be a very long trip, I plan to be back on Saturday,” he added when asked if it would interfere with his campaign schedule in New York.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/08/bernie-sanders-vatican-visit-pope-francis
(note: Clinton will be hobnobbing at yet another 300,000 per plate fund-raiser, I get that you need to dismiss this little conference, and why. It must suck to have to rain all over something good to defend the indefensible).
You sound a lot like Hillary explaining to the uninformed masses how they just need to do their research.
it's a dog's life, ain't it. 
