Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children [first edition]

Dust jacket notes: "Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children is the story of a clash between young and old, change and tradition, skeptics and believers. First, in a gesture of unmitigated perversity, the Vatican sends Don Camillo a young priest, ostensibly to help out, but actually to make innovations (i.e., trouble) in his parish. Don Chichi, as the newcomer is nicknamed, determines to install the entirety of the recent Ecumenical Council's reforms in twenty-four hours. The effect of Don Chichi's efforts might be compared to the forced installation of an electronic computer in a family of Scottish handweavers. But Don Chichi is the least of Don Camillo's worries. His young niece Flora, whom he has not seen since infancy and who has blossomed into a flower child, appears on the rectory doorstep with a clutch of Italian Hell's Angels. Don Camillo needs all the help he can get from Divine Providence and from his own cleverness to save his church, his town, and his own job from the onslaught of Don Chichi, Flora, Flora's friends, and other insidious influences of the sixties. This last Don Camillo book is charming, heartwarming, and as memorable as sthe other five best-selling stories about the crafty country priest."