A church is a very serious place and it is quite impossible for any Christian to imagine a Catholic priest laughing inside it particularly while praying to his Lord who looks helpless on the Cross. But there is at least one such priest whom I encountered when I was an adolescent. He is Don Camillo, the protagonist of a series of stories in Italian by Giovanni Guareschi. The Communist Mayor of the town, Peppone, plays an equally important role in the stories. Both these characters together m...