--- description: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is speaking at the Vatican Friday, praising Pope Francis and denouncing income inequality. title: Read the Speech Bernie Sanders Gave at the Vatican image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf073e156dcdc7600/69888f49524fc00562df7980/bernie-sanders6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Bernie Sanders](/tag/bernie-sanders/) ## Bernie Sanders Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read the Speech Bernie Sanders Gave at the Vatican by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 15, 2016 4:28 PM CUT  U.S. Democratic presidential canditate Bernie Sanders (C) leaves with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders from the 'Centesimus Annus 25 Years Later Symposiumon' at the Casina Pio IV April 15, 2016 in Vatican City, Vatican. U.S. Democratic presidential canditate Bernie Sanders (C) leaves with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders from the 'Centesimus Annus 25 Years Later Symposiumon' at the Casina Pio IV April 15, 2016 in Vatican City, Vatican.Franco Origlia—2016 Franco Origlia by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 15, 2016 4:28 PM CUT Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders [is speaking](http://time.com/4287640/bernie-sanders-praises-pope-francis/ "undefined") at the Vatican Friday, praising Pope Francis and denouncing income inequality. The Democratic presidential candidate, who is Jewish, announced last week that he would attend a conference on income inequality at the Vatican just days before the high-stakes New York primary. Here is a transcript of his prepared remarks. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4296102/bernie-sanders-vatican-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4296102/bernie-sanders-vatican-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read the Speech Bernie Sanders Gave at the Vatican","datePublished":"2016-04-15T16:28:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:47:41.217Z","description":"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is speaking at the Vatican Friday, praising Pope Francis and denouncing income inequality.","url":"https://time.com/4296102/bernie-sanders-vatican-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Bernie Sanders","2016 Election topic","New York","Vatican","faith"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf073e156dcdc7600/69888f49524fc00562df7980/bernie-sanders6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf073e156dcdc7600/69888f49524fc00562df7980/bernie-sanders6.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Democratic presidential canditate Bernie Sanders (C) leaves with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders from the 'Centesimus Annus 25 Years Later Symposiumon' at the Casina Pio IV April 15, 2016 in Vatican City, Vatican.","caption":"U.S. Democratic presidential canditate Bernie Sanders (C) leaves with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders from the 'Centesimus Annus 25 Years Later Symposiumon' at the Casina Pio IV April 15, 2016 in Vatican City, Vatican.","creditText":"Franco Origlia—2016 Franco Origlia","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/bernie-sanders/","name":"Bernie Sanders"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4296102/bernie-sanders-vatican-speech-transcript/","name":"Read the Speech Bernie Sanders Gave at the Vatican"}}]}] ```