Laissez-faire France honors one who cares
BEAUMES DE VENISE, France - The most popular person in this highly secularized country right now seems to be a bearded 81-year-old Capuchin priest who still wears a beret and goes around in a cassock and cape.
TV, radio and major newspaper attention has been centering on him, partly to highlight the plight of the homeless in a time of high unemployment, but especially to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his dramatic 1954 appeal on ...