Bob Franken: The Pope and Psychiatrists

Well, we don't have visual proof, so we'll just have to take the participants' word for it. It was only a brief chat, but one that rescued Bernie Sanders from the embarrassment of having left the New York campaign trail to attend an obscure Vatican "rich people are bad" meeting when he could ill afford to be away.

Pope Francis was feeling particularly charitable, so as he was heading out the door, he gave Sanders the gift he so desperately needed, bragging rights to say he actually did meet with the pope. Their encounter amounted to a pity gesture by the pontiff, although he put it a bit more...