VATICAN CITY, July 11 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an evangelical Protestant, had an audience Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.

ROME, April 3 (UPI) -- The British Embassy in Rome said Friday that Britain's Prince Charles will take time during his upcoming trip to Italy to visit Pope Benedict XVI.

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The Vatican has ordered a bishop recently reinstated in the Catholic church to renounce his view that no Jews were killed in gas chambers.

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Excommunication should be considered as a punishment for drug traffickers responsible for thousands of violent deaths in Mexico, a top Vatican official said.

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Vatican secretary of state called claims that Pius XII was "Hitler's Pope" a slur at a conference Thursday on the wartime pontiff.

VATICAN CITY, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- New information shows Pope Pius XII "spared no effort," clearing him from claims he didn't do enough to save Jews during World War II, Pope Benedict XVI said.

ROME, March 26 (UPI) -- A top U.N. official met Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI and Italian leaders in Rome to talk about climate change, religion and the poor.

ROME, March 16 (UPI) -- Chiara Lubich, who founded Focolare, a Roman Catholic group active in 182 countries, has died in Italy at the age of 88.

VATICAN CITY, March 7 (UPI) -- The Vatican official whose main job is to keep Pope Benedict XVI safe when he visits the United States next month has resigned.