I am excited to let you in on another commercial venture associated with my fundraiser.

Pink salt. Catholic pink salt.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no salt found in the Himalayas – pink or otherwise – unless someone brings it there. Salt does not grow on mountaintops, it accumulates in pools of water or sometimes the banks of rivers (more on that, perhaps, in a later post). The “Himalayan” pink salt comes from… a plateau. The Pothohar Plateau. The mine, in the town of Khewra, is about 60 miles from the Himalayas…

I have been working with the parish, St. Anthony’s, which covers the whole of the Chakwal region. It’s huge. And it includes the town of Khewra.

I will be heading to Pakistan personally in some weeks. If an investment in “Catholic pink salt” is interesting to you, let me know.