I'm not sure how I feel about this. Jesus didn't call His diciples to retreat into seclusion. They had to go out into the world and make disciples of the pagans and the Jews. This sounds like a Catholic ghetto or isolated Amish-esque community.
I wish him luck, but I wouldn't live there.
Sort of my take also (I a Lutheran BTW). Probably a great place to raise kids, but we are called to be a light to the world.
But at the same time a movement like this COULD be a light. A view of a way of life that is unlike what you can see in most US towns.
Remember that this is an educational operation. Those graduates WILL be going out into the world to impact and renew the culture.
For a typical layman, his greatest witness to the world is his manner of life.
If this were one isolated location, your objection might apply. If this were the beginning of a trend of going and founding new towns run on Christian principals, it would not.
It must be good as the ACLU is suing him.
Ave Maria without the porn and bc devices/products is what America used to be like
I thought the same thing. But then again, monasteries have a place within Christianity, and this community can serve a similar function. Additionally, and paradoxically, this seeming retreat from society could actually serve, by its way of life, as a beacon of light to our largely pagan society.