Ave Maria, Florida = new capitol in USA for Catholics

[steve2470]

read this article about the domino's ceo:

Pizza Magnate Flees the Pagan Hordes


http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29885

OAKLAND, California, Aug 12 (IPS) - They may not become as ubiquitous as the Domino's Pizza outlets that dot the U.S. landscape, but Tom Monaghan, the man who founded that fast food giant, is hoping that the town he is building for orthodox Catholics in Florida will one day replicate itself across the country.

In late March, at the first annual Boston Catholic Men's Conference held at Boston College High School, Monaghan, a major conservative philanthropist, triumphantly told the enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 men (including over 80 priests) that construction of Ave Maria University -- the first Catholic university built in 40 ¬years -- was moving forward.

The 240-million-dollar first phase will be centred around the "Oratory of Ave Maria," a 60,000-square-foot church with aluminium and glass arches, and will include the nation's largest crucifix in stained glass with a 60-foot-high bleeding Jesus. The church would become the largest fixed-seating Catholic Church in the nation, with room for more than 3,000 worshipers.

Students enrolled at the new university in southwest Florida would be high quality students, Monaghan said, with higher median SAT test scores than those attending other Catholic institutions. He also pledged that dormitories would be single-sex and that teachers in at least one quarter of the classes will be "wholly orthodox" priests.

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[silverweb]

1. Wonderful!

I hope they're all very happy together.

And leave the rest of us alone.

[Conservativesux]

5. And take that cardboard pizza with them. Use it for for insulation.....

or something!

The pizza you buy frozen at the supermarket is way better then
that garbage pizza they foist on consumers.

[Webster Green]

8. Worst pizza ever!

I can't believe anyone buys that crap.

[Book Lover]

2. Another touchpoint to divide US Catholics

I can think of quite a few other ways the money being spent on this endeavor could be used. If this guy is such an old-timer, how about he starts funding and performing the corporeal acts of mercy instead of this ego-based effort.

[MisterP]

3. somebody call Dan Brown and Carl Hiaasen, they have a novel to collaborate

on

[Scurrilous]

4. Old story...

...plans have changed:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050722/ts_chicagotrib/dominosfounderscalesbackchurchplan

Domino's founder scales back church plan

Fri Jul 22, 9:40 AM ET

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"Thomas Monaghan had a choice: Pour his fortune from the Domino's Pizza chain he founded into building the largest Roman Catholic church in America, or the best Catholic university.

Monaghan, who entered the pizza business in Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1960, opted for the latter. And on Thursday he unveiled a new, scaled-down design for the Oratory of Ave Maria, the planned centerpiece of the town and university, both named Ave Maria, being built by the former pizza baron near Naples, Fla.

Under the latest design, the $24 million edifice will cost roughly 75 percent less and be about two-thirds smaller than originally planned, seating 1,100 worshipers instead of 3,300, and soaring 100 feet instead of 150 feet."

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"Though more modest, the oratory, as churches not affiliated with parishes are called, will still be grand, and remain the focal point of the university and town of Ave Maria, which Monaghan is building in partnership with the Baron Collier Cos."

[roguevalley]

6. If they could put this in South Carolina with the wingnuts that are

building towns there, we could corral all the loons up in one spot.

[Scurrilous]

7. Good idea...

...:thumbsup:

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[steve2470]

10. thanks :-) nt