The Democratic presidential hopeful spends the night at the papal residence after addressing a Vatican summit on social justice.
Pope Francis has met US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the Vatican to discuss the need for morality in the world economy.
The meeting lasted about five minutes and took place in the papal residence, where Mr Sanders spent the night after addressing a Vatican conference on social justice.
"He is a beautiful man," the Vermont senator told ABC News afterwards. "I am not a Catholic, but there is a radiance that comes from him."
Mr Sanders, the Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants, said they discussed "injecting the need for morality in the global economy".
No photographs were taken of the encounter, which took place before the pontiff left for Greece, where he took 12 Syrian refugees back to Rome with him.
Mr Sanders' cameo on the world stage could lend him a much-needed boost ahead of Tuesday's Democratic party primary in New York, where opinion polls say he is trailing Hillary Clinton.
On Friday Mr Sanders released his federal tax return, which showed he took home less in a year than Mrs Clinton earned in a single speech.
The tax return showed Mr Sanders and his wife, Jane, had gross income of $205,271 in 2014, paying $27,653 in taxes - a rate of 13.5%.
It puts renewed pressure on Mrs Clinton to publish the transcripts of her speeches to big banks.
Mr Sanders challenged her to do so during a televised debate in Brooklyn on Thursday, but she turned the tables by asking him to release his tax return.
The former Secretary of State and one-time New York senator earned $11m in 2014 and the first quarter of 2015 for 51 speeches to banks and other groups and industries.
They included addresses to Deutsche Bank AG ($280,000), the National Automobile Dealers Association ($325,500) and General Electric ($225,500).
Mr Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has run a populist campaign, vowing to rein in Wall Street.
Mrs Clinton is also pledging to create a safe financial system.
But her rival says her speeches to big banks such as Goldman Sachs show she is too close to those financial institutions.
She has a lead over Mr Sanders among the delegates who will determine which candidate becomes the Democratic nominee to represent the party in November's White House election.
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