Berlusconi attacked by Catholic Church over divorce; what beautiful hypocrisy...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has come under fire from the Catholic Church - one of his biggest allies - amid continuing controversy over his impending divorce.

In a front-page editorial Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference, condemned him for his behaviour describing it as 'worrying'.

The stinging comment added that Italy deserved a Prime Minister who was a 'mirror of the country's soul' and called on him to be more 'sober and sombre'.

Perma tanned Berlusconi, 72, has been in the spotlight after his long suffering wife Veronica Lario, 52, announced she was divorcing him because she was 'fed up of seeing him with minors'. More...

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