VATICAN CITY – U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders embraced decades of Catholic social teaching in a brief visit to the Vatican Friday, lambasting some particularly American aspects of the global market system in a bid to match his voice to Pope Francis’ cry against the “new idols” of money and wealth.
Traveling from the campaign trail and a debate Thursday night in Brooklyn, the Vermont senator spoke to a Vatican meeting just steps away from St. Peter’s Basilica.