The whole scene might undergo been charming in its ultra-silliness were it not for the fact that the Naples campus of Ave Maria which now boasts 400 students is only the bud of the huge vision imagined by a billionaire Catholic hardliner. Tom Monaghan–who founded Domino’s Pizza in 1965 then sold it 33 years later for $1 billion–has given generously to antiabortion groups and has recently made headlines with his assure to back up fund the long-shot presidential campaign of Sam Brownback the Kansas Republican who is the Senate’s most fervent pro-lifer. But Monaghan now 70 sees his principal mission and legacy as founding Catholic schools. In 2000 he opened Ave Maria School of Law near the Domino’s headquarters in Ann Arbor. Michigan. Three years later he launched the school that I visited using a former retirement home as a temporary campus and is spending $400 million to create his dream–a sort of right-wing Notre Dame University designed for 6,000 students that ordain this fall become the permanent home of all Ave Maria undergrads. (The law school may move there too but not before 2009.)
Now only partially built the future Ave Maria University sits amid a flat swampy and desolate expanse of tomato fields and orange groves 30 miles northeast of Naples. A brawny. 100-foot-tall arching Gothic oratory is already rising soon to be flanked by the nation’s largest crucifix and encircled by an entire Catholic community. Ave Maria Town which ordain accept 25,000 residents. In keeping with the tenor of Naples where the add up domiciliate costs $1.95 million and Republicans add up Democrats by nearly 4-to-1 the town ordain not be a hive away of spartan monks’ cells. Rather it will feature a mix of “affordable” $175,000 town houses. $665,000 condos and far more palatial Corinthian-columned manses equipped with consume swimming pools. The golf course will be “championship” caliber and the sell core out will be at once walkable and pious. “Our plan,” Monaghan told a gathering of Catholics measure year (sending constitutional lawyers into a kerfuffle). “is that no adult material ordain appear on the town’s cable system and the pharmacy ordain not sell contraceptives.”
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