Bill and Melinda and Karol and Teresa

60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine had an interesting, unimposing piece on computer age/humanitarian icons Bill and Melinda Gates last Sunday.

Earlier in the day, I was in Baltimore (again) where I encountered a couple of other icons (here) well known (as well as one perhaps mostly less so).

It was, for me anyway, one of those odd juxtapositions in this incredibly wonderful, oddly disjointed age.

 Icons of the New?

Icons of the Old?

insert here RCC approved photo of Karol Józef Wojtyła (aka Pope John Paul II) and Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (aka Mother Teresa) hand in hand for full effect

On the other hand . . .