A Catholic College, a Billionaire's Idea, Will Rise in Florida

The New York Times ^ | 02/10/03 | TAMAR LEWIN

[friendly]

Always ask for thin crust Domino's Pizza.

[RecentConvert]

What an excellent idea!!

Bump!

[TAdams8591]

When our college Pro-Life group sponsered an event for Headstart children (about 20 years ago), Domino's donated the pizza, napkins and soda. They were told how many would be in attendance, and yet such was their generosity, that there was so much pizza left over, we didn't know what to do with it. Other businesses also donated, but a number of them slammed their doors in our faces stating that our group was "too controversial."

Of all the doners, not only was Domino's the most generous, but the most enthusiastic, demonstrating the true spirit of Christian charity. Domino's left a lasting impression on all those who participated, including the children. It seems to me, Tom Monaghan learned quite well from the good Catholics who taught him.

And now this latest generosity, a Truly Catholic Univeristy for pious Catholics, how revolutionary! = )

I hope this venture will be as successful as all the others!! The best of luck to you Mr. Monaghan!!!!

[Hank Rearden]

Yes, Domino's "pizza" is Quizzine with a capital Q. Pretty vile.

Their Cheesy Bread, on the other hand, is pretty addictive. Get that.

[montag813]

McBrien apparently doesn't know that Monaghan has already done years ago what McBrien suggested. He got Mother Assumpta Long, former Mother Superior of the Dominican nuns in Nashville, TN to start a new order aimed at providing schools and support for the poorest in the Detroit, Michigan area.

Monaghan is a wonderful man, a true Christian in every sense. G-d bless him.

An another note, it is great to see Christians putting some serious cash into bolstering Christian institutions, especially as a bulwark against the Saudi-funded gathering threat of Islam in the United States. This menace should not be underestimated or go unchallenged. The left-wing has left America's youth without God and without morals, open for the spiritual rape that is Islam. Christians and Conservative need to put serious cash behind efforts to innoculate the next generation against this hateful cult.

[SuziQ]

We're proud to be Founders of this new venture! It is an exciting prospect, and I do so want to see a faithful Cahtolic University in the Southeast.

[Chemnitz]

When I went to Notre Dame, McBrien would be interviewed to comment on the latest statement of the pope. He would always say, "This is the stupidest thing he Vatican has done since..." He always struck me as an idiot, and I am not a Catholic.

Notre Dame missed out on a huge donation. I think it is great that pizza money will build an alternative!

[Hank Rearden]

Always ask for thin crust Domino's Pizza.

There's a problem with this theory; i.e. it's hard to differentiate Domino's thin-crust from the cardboard box it comes in.

[wardaddy]

Good luck.

We have totally lost the culture war with academia and also in large part with the Christian church as well as nearly all other "institutions".

We have the political power...we need to take back the centers of non-governmental power as well. It will be a long road and require generations to accomplish.

G-d bless this man....even if his pizzas are mediocre..lol

[Contra]

"helping the inner-city schools, those are the teachings of Jesus Christ"

That's a new one on me, I wonder where that's written in the Bible?

[Contra]

Ditto that on Domino's Pizza being the worst I ever had. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who feels that way. However, my admiration goes out to what this gentleman is doing for Catholic education.

[Dajjal]

Bumpus ad summum.

[Clemenza]

We're proud to be Founders of this new venture! It is an exciting prospect, and I do so want to see a faithful Cahtolic University in the Southeast.

What about Bradley University, run by Janet Reno's friend Sister Jean Laughlin. /sarcasm

[nickcarraway]

"There's a great range in Catholic institutions," Dr. Hellwig said. "That variety dates to the 1960's, when the Second Vatican Council opened much more positive relations to the modern world of science, technology and politics. Before Vatican II, regulations about what students could read excluded a lot of modern literature and philosophy."

This statement is so false it's not even funny. And this women is supposed to represent Catholic colleges and universities? And her official position is that these institutions were so poor before then? She is raisinf anti-Catholic stereotypes? Is she angling for a job with Jack Chick?

[livius]

Another aspect of the move of Ave Maria University to Florida is that we Floridians are hoping this will bring an influx of conservative Catholics to an area that has had way too many AmChurch scandals.

[friendly]

Always ask for thin crust Domino's Pizza. There's a problem with this theory; i.e. it's hard to differentiate Domino's thin-crust from the cardboard box it comes in.

Now, now it is not that bad.... er, maybe you are right, now that I think about it.

Actually the box is more nutritious since at least it has some fiber.

[Conservative til I die]

"Tom Monaghan has the agenda of a right-wing Republican, and he happens to confuse that with the teachings of the Catholic Church," said Richard P. McBrien, a University of Notre Dame theology professor. "I wish he had spent this money the way a really good Catholic would: helping the poor; helping inner-city schools, which are being suffocated through lack of money; helping the aged and the infirm. Those are the teachings of Jesus Christ."

McBrien is a known liberal. Also, the reason that the Catholic schools in the inner city are dying from lack of funding is because the Church, as much as I love it, is too obstinate when it comes time to calling it quits in a certain neighborhood. Over on the West Side of Manhattan, in the Clinton section, there are multiple Catholic schools and parishes, in areas that because of demographic shifts, have few Catholics anymore. It's mostly impoverished Protestants.

[John O]

"There has been concern among the colleges and their representatives, that they are so dismissive of the rest of us," said Monika Hellwig, president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.

There comes a time when you admit that the present structure is unfit for use and you must raze it and build anew.

Surely Miss Hellwig (or is it Mrs. Hellwig) doesn't think that our children should go to liberal hellholes such as the multiple-democrat-voting, politically-correct-but-backboneless Marquette University, home of the flapping turkeys (or whatever they call the warriors these days).

I'm not even Catholic anymore and I think Mr Monaghan is doing a great thing.

(And to all those people running down Dominoes, He sold it a while back. It used to be good pizza way back when it started)

[SuziQ]

Due to its founder's conservatism I'll consider giving it another shot sometime.

He's sold Domino's, so I don't think he'll be getting any more money from it. I think Bain Capitol is Mitt Romney's company.

I had never liked Domino's pizza, but tried it again a few years ago, and it had gotten better.

[SuziQ]

Couldn't he have named some of them St. Mary's, Our Lady of Victory, Our Lady of Guadalupe or some other variation of the Holy Mother's name?

When the school is moved to FL, the Ave Maria in MI will no longer exist. I'd also read that Bernard Dobranski, head of the Law School, is considering moving it to Naples as well. If that happens, there will be Ave Maria Univ. and Law School in Naples, and Ave Maria of the Americas in Nicaragua. They may have kept the names all the same for ease in paperwork.