A TOP aide to Pope Benedict has blasted the media for highlighting the Vatican’s views on sex while maintaining a “deafening silence” about charity work done by thousands of Catholic organisations around the world.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who as secretary of state is effectively the Vatican’s Prime Minister, also accused the media of deliberately misinterpreting the Pope’s speeches, especially his Regensburg address last September which angered Muslims.

‘We face an extremely grave problem. The church’s messages are subject to a type of manipulation and falsification by some western media,” Cardinal Bertone said in an interview with Le Figaro Magazine.

Source: Pope aide blasts media coverage | NEWS.com.au

I’ve gotta say, His Eminence has a point — and I’ve been guilty of the same thing.