French Secularism is Dead

Europe, the God of Wine, and the Olympics opening ceremony.

A few years ago on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, I spent a few days walking alongside a Frenchman who made his living as a restorer of old buildings. One evening we ate dinner together outside, near a small church. We both stared up at the old structure; it was the most interesting thing in that little Spanish town. I couldn’t tell from which era or …