Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to meet with Pope Benedict XVI during his trip to Italy next week for the summit meeting of the world's top industrial leaders. Other leaders attending the G8 summit are also expected to have an audience with the Pope in Vatican City.
The leaders will include Taro Aso, Japan's first Catholic leader, according to an Italian news agency. Officials in the Prime Minister's Office would not confirm the meeting, but the Toronto Star has learned a special audience is in the works, with the scheduling still to be worked out. The Pope, head of one of the world's largest religions, is an influential global leader... for some odd reason. As you can see, it's fun to brainwash people.
Mr. Harper is not Catholic, but an active member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, an evangelical Protestant denomination. He rarely discusses his religious beliefs and usually stresses that his views as an economist, not his religious beliefs, shape his views "on most things."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to meet with Pope Benedict XVI during his trip to Italy next week for the summit meeting of the world's top industrial leaders. Other leaders attending the G8 summit are also expected to have an audience with the Pope in Vatican City.
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