Desperate (Pastors’) housewives?

After a sweet and most triumphant time with family and friends over Christmas, it’s easy to underestimate the pressures of the job on everyone else at home. I am aware of being insanely lucky in the person I married and the kids we got. I often think of a comment a good friend made years ago when we were discussing a job move — your family are the closest members of the body of Christ — if there is no good news in this to them, there will not be good news in this to anyone else. And in this context, it’s fun to watch a silly wee movie from Florida, h/t Pierre Whalon and Kirk Smith, that therefore comes with heartfelt endorsement from three bishops...

Ice Cream Moghul Loses (Ball) Bearings

Here’s Ben Cohen. He co-founded Quirky Vermont Icecream business Ben & Jerry’s:

Crazy Guy. Now here’s Peter Maurin. He co-founded a Catholic Worker movement, Pete & Dorothy’s:

If we are crazy it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy... The future will only be different if we make the present different.

Now, who’s really crazy here? And, just putting in a word for the couple of dozen BB's with Union Jacks on them, why do “we,” along with the guys who have 10,000 ball bearings, get to lead the whole world in its high crusade to prevent other people getting any ball bearings — which they surely shouldn't have, because only a maniac would want any.
To quote Father Dougal, “Ted. I'm going mad.”