Pizza Magnate Seeks Catholic-Governed Town

[catholicresistence]

Shrub=Bush

 

Andy

 

 

HAHAH, good one!!!

[catholicresistence]

Anyone got the scoop on Ave Maria University?  Is it any good?

 

Not heard much about it in itself, just know that many on its board are NeoCons supposedly.

 

Maybe thy can teach Conservative Disobidiance to Pope 101.

 

Not sure, tread light on that one.

[Deogratias]

I hear Monaghan is a trad. 

[CampeadorShin]

If he's not a trad, then he should look at this site!  He should expect his community to be somewhat like this group of people.  I wonder if Vox could get ahold of him, lol.

[Aloysius]

Which parts are down?  There are a couple of features that have been neglected as they are not  relevant to the main goal... the inn and town sections are all up and  functional.

housing prices? up to you-- subsidarity. there's a  rent-free appartment-type room (400sq ft 2 br 2 ba) and a half acre of  land for $6000, to be paid over a period of up to 10 years.

Anyway, I wouldn't hold out till later because it's filling up and we're making an offer on the land this weekend.

Ehh...  it's not primarily an internet venture so it doesn't matter to me that  the site's not flashy, it's designed to just be real simple.

Any more info on the area??

No, I know what you mean by flashy. My blog isn't either

 I put up pictures and maps of the property we're looking at.  I'm meeting with the real estate agent this saturday to put an offer in on it.
 
  It's a perfect location with a straight shot to cities like Pittsburgh  PA, Washington PA, Wheeling WV, and Steubenville OH... just far enough  away from those cities to keep it isolated and tranquil but close  enough that it's not too much of a hassel trip to get to.  It's in  Washington county right on the border of WV... we got the scoop on all  the electricity and water rights... and there are no zoning  restrictions (chestertonian paradise!  well, okay, there's still  basic property tax, but at least the state lets us have more control  over it)
 
  Send me an email, bdougherty@chesterbel.net , with any questions about  it.  I'll bend over backwards for you if you're interested and  want to make sure everything's legit.
 
  But yeah, back to the Dominos guy and his pizza city in florida... I  really would like to visit the place and just kind of observe how  everything works out... perhaps I shall plan a trip (i'm usually in  florida a few times a year anyway, though I don't think in the same  area)
 
  hmm.....
 

[catholicresistence]

I hear Monaghan is a trad. 

 

 

If he is, then we have a Trad NeoCon- kinda contradictions, no?

[catholicresistence]

Excerpts from Sungenis articles:

 

 

For the whole article this is from-

 

http://www.catholicintl.com/catholicissues/politics2-print.htm

 

Other prominent Catholic institutions are tending in the same direction. Ave Maria School of Law, initiated by Dominos Pizza entrepreneur, Tom Monaghan, has on its board of directors James L. Buckley (brother to William F. Buckley, Jr.), who, while sitting on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is a member of the Skull & Bones society, class of 1944. Kate W. O’Beirne, Washington editor of William Buckley’s National Review, also sits on the Ave Maria board. That Skull & Bones members can infiltrate these Catholic institutions with impunity shows just how far the Neo-con agenda has advanced. Another Ave Maria director is Robert P. George. In March 2005, Crisis had a full-page ad touting the winners of the prestigious “Bradley Prize,” among them being Robert George. This is the same Neo-con outfit that funds Crisis from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which specializes in setting up Neo-con think-tanks to enhance Middle East war efforts for the Bush administration. In addition, George has had several meetings with Bush campaign mastermind, Karl Rove, the man who recognized first that without the Catholic vote Bush would not be in the White House. Unfortunately, Rove is only exploiting gullible Catholics. He is just as immoral as the rest of the bunch. His sexual preferences were recently exposed when in March 2005 reporters saw him enter a gay bar in Washington D.C., and there is much more to tell about Rove.

 

Another article:

http://www.catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/pastoral/priscv.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spooky7272]

http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/7645794/detail.html

 

Domino's Founder Backtracks On Catholic Laws For New Town

Monaghan Says Comments About Ave Maria Community Were 'Out Of Place'

POSTED: 8:47 am EST March 3, 2006

UPDATED: 8:57 am EST March 3, 2006

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The founder of Domino's Pizza is backtracking from earlier comments he made about wanting strict Roman Catholic principles to govern a new town he's bankrolling in southwest Florida.  

Thomas Monaghan is financing the town of Ave Maria, which is located about 25 miles east of Naples. The town is being built around Ave Maria University, which is the first Catholic university to be built in the United States in four decades, and is also founded by Monaghan. Both are set to open next year.  

Monaghan said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he has a vision for the university -- not the town -- and that he's trying to make the institution world-class.  

His comments are in contrast to statements he made last year, when he said that pornographic magazines won't be sold in the town, pharmacies won't carry condoms or birth control pills, and cable television won't carry X-rated channels. Monaghan said Friday that those comments were "out of place" and added that the town is open to anybody.  

The community will be set on 5,000 acres with a European-inspired town center. It will encircle a massive church and what planners call the largest crucifix in the nation, standing nearly 65 feet tall.  

Monaghan has already pledged more than $250 million to the project.  

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