Is the tide turning?
The four-day state visit of Pope Leo had results stretching from the unexpected to the startling.
The crowds were huge, the atmosphere electric, the mood joyful and, above all, unapologetic. Nobody was shy of advertising their faith, and this in a country which has built impenetrable walls of separation between Church and State, called – untranslatable into English – laïcité. Are those walls crumbling, and if so, where does that leave France?
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