Monaghan, who has a history of advancing Catholic causes, has devoted himself to orthodoxy in Catholic education since he sold the Domino's chain in 1998 for a reported $1 billion. Conservative Catholics believe the encyclical is often ignored at many Catholic colleges. Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, has announced that he will give at least $220 million to build a Catholic university and a town to support it on 5,750 acres near Naples, Florida, the Washington Post reports.Īve Maria University will adhere to strict Catholic orthodoxy, with a school logo that bears the name of Pope John Paul II's 1990 encyclical on education. That's right, even the Catholic Church is too liberal in some spots for him.Thomas S. He thinks the Vatican's Ex Corde Ecclesiae is too liberal, so it has been eliminated in town. Yet a community of "like-minded citizens" whose rulers, like the American Taliban, offer their residents no civil liberties not even the right to vote for local officials nor local laws. Jeb Bush praised the town at its ground breaking, lauded the development as a new kind of town, where faith and "freedom" will merge to create a community of like-minded citizens. Such heinous transgressions may also risk getting you fired if you work for Monaghan. You best not be talking bad about Pope "mayor" Monaghan either, (or for that matter, be a gasp! Libural) otherwise you will be run out of town. If you go to the drug store and you want to buy the pill or the condoms or contraception, you won't be able to get that in Ave Maria Town." There is not going to be any pornographic television in Ave Maria Town. We're going to control the cable television that comes in the area. You won't be able to buy a Playboy or Hustler magazine in Ave Maria Town. That means we will be able to control what goes on there. This also means that he can control what sort of store, hospital, or even church can set up in town, religious freedom be dammed! Monaghan puts it best however: "We'll own all commercial real estate. Monaghan also gloated that he would remain the largest holder of land forever, ensuring his crazy vision won't be going away any time soon. The law ensures Monaghan and Barron Collier development corporation, as the largest landowners, can control Ave Maria's government forever. So in essence, Monaghan and a select group of individuals hold all the power over the town property, as it makes landowners, not registered voters, the ultimate authority in Ave Maria. The law was passed by the Florida State legislators and signed by then-Governor Jeb Bush. First he managed to write a law to gain control over the town forever, called the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District, a limited government law which allowed for a "special interest" group to run the town's community infrastructure, including community development systems, facilities, services, projects, and improvements without a mayor. Originally some farmland, Monaghan set out to create his own little version of Catholic dominionism utopia. Ave Maria Jesusland Town Īve Maria is an unincorporated community in Collier County, Florida, that was founded in 2005 by Ave Maria Development Company (He really likes that name!). In 1989, a coalition of 7 groups boycotted Domino's Pizza for its involvement in donations to the group and in 1990, MIT students protested Domino's for the same reason. This includes groups such as Word of God, a mission that eventually came to be known as a cult, resulting in the Catholic Church investigating the group to see if they were orthodox (oh the irony). His methods: Donate millions to Catholic groups that share his viewpoint. Going further than that, he actually believes most of the Catholic Church is less orthodox than his viewpoint, which has resulted in him trying to steer the church even further to the right. Monaghan is a full-blown Catholic fundamentalist, which means the typical anti-abortion, anti-reproductive freedom, and supply side economy viewpoint.
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