Should be disqualified due to the fact they allowed the Holy Name of Jesus to be covered when the Aborter-in-chief spoke there.
Tom Monaghan leaving town?
Ave Maria...unfortunately, feeds into the old stereotype that Catholics are more comfortable with divine right hierarchy than open democracy–that you can’t be a good American and a good Catholic. Yet as the series notes, Ave Maria may be in the American tradition of land barons more than it is in the Catholic tradition–at least of the past century, and especially under John Paul II–of holding up democracy as the political ideal, as long as it is accompanied by civic virtue. Maybe Monaghan doesn’t trust his own good Catholic residents?Related threads:
-- from the Commonweal blog article Ave Maria Town: Roman Catholic…and un-American?