"I have been in love and had doubts about my decision to become a priest". This is according to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI), in an interview with the newspaper Repubblica. "Of course I was in love. But I was more in love with Jesus, and I did not have to leave anyone," he admits. The cardinal speaks of the shadows on the Church but defends it. Scandals "there have been, of course: the Church is not the community of the perfect. It is made of men, and men are sinners. However, the Vatican is not a gang of scoundrels. Casta meretrix". What about death? "I would like to face it lucidly, being able to say to it, 'Dear Sister Death, come, you don't frighten me'. She will be hurt! But I'm not sure I will succeed. I know my fragility". About Heaven, he envisions it as "a full communion, a love that does not end. The joy of being oneself, without diaphragms, united, one with God and neighbor. With no more fear".