It used to happen when Joseph Ratzinger was just a cardinal but has not ceased for the entire seven years of Benedict XVI’S papacy.
Those who know him and who are well acquainted with his writing and theology, are asking themselves whether the portrait drawn by the media is in fact a “caricature”.
In an interview with Korazym.org, the Pope’s secretary Georg Gaenswein asked the media to “correct distortions as far as possible.”
The Pope’s secretary told journalist Angela Ambrogetti that “The Pope does not even seem that concerned about the image that some media give of him, portraying him as a cold and conservative person. The image painted of Benedict XVI during his time as cardinal and then, after a short interval, as Pope, is mostly a distortion,” Fr. Georg explained.
“Much of the press, not just in Germany but also across the world, particularly the English press in Great Britain and North America and to some extent the press in French speaking countries and in Italy, have almost created a caricature of the Pope as a person and of his ideas.”