Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity chief, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has slated Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, warning that he should behave with "seriousness and sobriety". Berlusconi, who is embroiled in a divorce battle with his wife, was criticised by the Vatican despite denying her allegations that he not only "frequents" starlets but has had a relationship with an under-age model from Naples, the Times Online says.
Cardinal Kasper said that "everybody, but above all a head of government", should behave with "seriousness and sobriety".
Public quarrels over separation brought additional suffering and were a bad example to young people, he added. "A greater attention to privacy would have been more fitting for both spouses."
The Italian Catholic daily Avvenire also reprimanded Mr Berlusconi over his penchant for fielding glamorous young women in elections.
In an editorial, Avvenire said that Mr Berlusconi had a "self-declared weakness for actresses in the bloom of youth" and called on him to mend his ways.
Italy deserved a Prime Minister who was a "mirror of the country's soul", it added, and called on him to be more "sober and sombre".
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