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Hillary Clinton

MBS

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17. The reporters/writers for the liberal Catholic press

Reply to Cha (Reply #14)

Sun Apr 17, 2016, 11:55 AM

Apr 2016

have pretty much done so.
One of them,Massimo Faggioli (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Faggioli), a professor at the University of St. Thomas, Catholic college in Minnesota, as well as (obviously) an Italian, has stayed pretty relentlessly on the case.
He wrote this for Commonweal 3 days ago, and has continued to send out various tweets. .
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/what-does-sanders-invitation-say-about-vatican-and-sanders

Reports from National Catholic Reporter highlighted the (shamelessly partisan) role of (economist and Sanders supporter) Jeffrey Sachs in engineering this debacle from beginning to end:
http://ncronline.org/news/francis-meeting-bernie-sanders-not-political-just-quick-greeting

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Quite the opposite Treant Apr 2016 #24

There needs to me some reporters state side who will call him out on his BULLSHIT. Cha Apr 2016 #14

The reporters/writers for the liberal Catholic press MBS Apr 2016 #17

Wow, thank you for these links. Shall read them later today! Cha Apr 2016 #19

when you open the Commonweal article, MBS Apr 2016 #21

Mahalo for the heads up, MBS! Cha Apr 2016 #22

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I doubt they will. pandr32 Apr 2016 #13

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