'There are moments when it looks like a conspiracy, because for example when I was in the USA I was informed that for a week an Italian newspaper mentioned an educational institute with a great educational tradition for a fact that has not been verified and is currently under investigation by the magistracy and it looked as if in that place horrible crimes had been carried out: This is a falsification, To see on the papers or in the news always the same lines is a shameful and mystifying conspiracy that should be absolutely condemned,' said cardinal Tarcision Bertone, the Vatican state secretary, in an interview to the Vatican radio after his intervention yesterday at the Meeting in Rimini.He was referring to the episode concerning the Salesian institute in Valsalice di Torino, i.e. presumed episodes of paedophilia by an operator that are currently being investigated by the magistracy of Turin after the complaint of a homeless child.
These are the thoughts of cardinal Bertone dealing with the fact that after reading Italian and European newspapers one develops a dubious image of the Church linked to episodes that make the news.
Is it that journalists do not understand the Church or is it something else?
Bertone wondered: 'This is certainly a falsifying way of presenting the Church, like a single fragment of the great Sistin Chapel after renovation works, when it re-acquired its splendour and Michelangelo's original colours. There are parts of the painting that have kept the ruined colours. If one films the Sistin Chapel by focusing only on these obscure parts and not on its splendour, that would be a falsification.'
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