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

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

[strela]

You forgot the Ave Maria Beauty College in Sleeping Dog, AL and the Ava Maria Muffler Installation Academy of Walla Walla, WA.

[Kryptonite]

AMU of Florida is not to be confused with Florida AMU.

I like this idea so much I might join the Founder's Club, and buy some real estate nearby!

[Fred Mertz]

God Bless Tom Monaghan and all his efforts!

Amen to that.

[Loyalist]

"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."

Hey, McBrien, when did you use your six-figure salary and royalties to help anyone other than yourself?

[Desdemona]

ping

[Notwithstanding]

I know at least 2 FReepers who are members of the first class at the law school.

[Desdemona]

I know at least 2 FReepers who are members of the first class at the law school.

Really? I'm a Founder. It's so easy and goes to such a worthy effort.

[DensaMensa]

Here's one Protestant that says way to go Tom!

Here's a second Protestant who agrees with that. The sad part of all such large charity is that when he is gone it will go the way of all "foundations" run by bureaucrats, to the left.

[Windcatcher]

I've been forming thoughts along these lines recently. We need lots of affordable private schools where Conservative and religious education can be had by average people. I graduated from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, but I'm sorry to say that the tuition there is a real deterrent to people wanting to attend. If I hadn't gotten an academic scholarship, I never could have afforded it. I'm also sorry to say that, while the professors im my major were religious and Conservative (I majored in a hard science), many if not most of the humanities professors were die-hard leftists. It's real

On a side note, I think we shouldn't stop at colleges. I think far greater good could be done by building good Catholic grade and high schools. Most people in this country don't go to college, and we need to do all we can to get them away from the public school system and the Marxists infesting it.

[applemac_g4]

Fantastic! And 10 years from now when that ball club of yours goes up to Boston and South Bend, I hope they take the Eagles and Irish to the woodshed.

[Windcatcher]

Hmmm...don't know where the "it's real" came from...I must have started a thought and gotten sidetracked :)

[Desdemona]

I think far greater good could be done by building good Catholic grade and high schools.

I also contribute to my HS alma mater, an all-girls Catholic. It's very disappointing to read the annual report every year and realize that less than $200,000 of a $2.5 million budget comes from the alumnae. Tuition this year is outrageous.

ALL Catholic schools need support.

[Kryptonite]

Many Catholic educators are uneasy about Ave Maria, irritated that Mr. Monaghan would start his own university rather than support an existing Catholic college and annoyed at his broad criticism of Catholic education.

"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'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."

So Hellwig (WHAT A NAME!), McBrien and the Slimes admit that the Vatican opened up "relations to the modern world of politics", but object that this university won't ascribe to their politics? Guffaw. Who's really being dismissive here?

[PieroC]

"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 doesn't get it: Tom Monaghan has fed millions of poor, given jobs to thousands others... what have you done professor McBrien?

[montag813]

(Richard P. McBrien, a University of Notre Dame theology professor)
As a Catholic, it's comments like this one that absolutely enrage me. I'm sure that a lot of that money that the good members of the Boston Diocese gave every week went to the poor. Oh wait. It went to paying off victims of homosexual priests that took over the Church 30 years ago.

Yep. In fact, Richard P. McBrien is most likely himself a left-wing homosexual, bent on turning the Church into some great big gay bar, with bareback "circuit parties" every Sunday, where instead of wafers they pass out ecstacy and Viagra to the leather-clad parishoners who get nasty on the waterbed-covered altar.

Sick freaks.

[Rushian]

"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 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.

[Kryptonite]

[friendly]

Always ask for thin crust Domino's Pizza.