Posted on 05/05/2009 2:17:12 PM PDT by presidio9
His wife has already declared that enough is enough - and yesterday it was the turn of Roman Catholic bishops to take Silvio Berlusconi to task for his wandering eye.
Avvenire, the Italian Catholic daily, reprimanded the Prime Minister for his “self-declared weakness for actresses in the bloom of youth”, and called on the 72-year-old billionaire to control himself.
As Mr Berlusconi and his soon-to-be former wife, Veronica Lario, drew up the battlelines for a bruising divorce, the newspaper - the voice of the Italian bishops' conference - threw its weight behind growing calls for the Prime Minister to moderate his behaviour.
“We know that a man of the Government is judged by what he achieves, for his programmes and for the quality of the laws that he contributes to passing,” it said. “But neither should the quality of a leader, his style and his values be inconsequential - they cannot be. We ask that the Prime Minister be more sober, sombre and a mirror of the country's soul.”
Last night Mr Berlusconi went on state-run television to defend himself, repeating that his estranged wife should publicly apologise for embarrassing him and admit that she was wrong. He also said that the suggestion by his wife and the media that he had a relationship with an 18-year-old girl was a lie.
Ms Lario, 52, had cited her husband's frequent flirtations with younger women as a reason for divorce, and pointed to his recent presence at the 18th birthday party of Noemi Letizia as evidence.
Mr Berlusconi said: “If there was anything spicy or less than clean in the relationship
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Pope to Berlusconi: “Zip it”.
I don't think it's just his eyes that wander...
Although the honey in today's Post that is his alleged current squeeze would tempt any good Catholic...
“On” -> An.
Hey Silvio those blue pills aren’t antacids.
He should think with his big head and not the small one (tempting as Italian ladies are!).
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