VATICAN, Vatican City – As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was being shepherded around the Vatican’s inner corridors for his meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday, a mild kerfuffle broke out over the giving of gifts.A Vatican reporter noted that Harper did not come bearing one. His staff went to pains to email journalists travelling with him — repeatedly — that Canadian protocol officials had in fact given their Vatican counterparts a rare hand-carved Maple Leaf sculpture.Then there was the matter of the unusually short audience that Harper received — just 10 minutes, including translation, compared to the 50 minutes Russian …read more
Source: National Newswatch
