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Vermont senator hopes to align campaign with issues Pope Francis has raised in what seems to be a gamble for a candidate who rarely speaks about religion Bernie Sanders plans to warn against “the idolatry of money” in a speech at the Vatican next week which the Democratic candidate hopes will align his insurgent presidential campaign with the moral preaching of Pope Francis. “What the pope has been clear about is linking the issue of morality with the global economy and making the point that you can’t have a moral economy when so many people are living in poverty”, Sanders told The Guardian. [Read more].

• Dan Roberts, Bernie Sanders to preach against “the idolatry of money” during Vatican visit, The Guardian, April 8, 2016

Bernie Sanders in 1981. “I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of who I am”, Sanders said during a televised debate recently, adding: “Look, my father’s family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust”. Photo: Donna Light/AP.