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Thursday, June 03, 2010 Jackson Labs Admits It Might Do HESC Research In Ave Maria Town Jackson Labs has a nifty new website devoted to the proposed facility to be built in Collier County, Florida, just outside of Ave Maria University. (HT: commenter "curious"). The website has a neat section of "Frequently asked questions" where Jackson Labs proudly declares the following as one of its "key discoveries": "In vitro fertilization, the freezing of embryos and other assisted reproductive technologies were invented and/or perfected by Jackson." Uh-oh. Not a good sign that Jackson takes its ethical obligations seriously. But let's get...

The Controversy Behind Monaghan’s Ave Maria Town “Scheme” By CHARLES E. RICE(Editor’s Note: On January 14, 2010 The Wanderer published an article titled “Rhetoric vs. Actions: Is Abortion Allowed in Monaghan’s Ave Maria?” In that article, the author, Marielena Montesino de Stuart, exposed Ave Maria Town court documents that include vague clauses regarding abortion, embryonic stem- cell research, adult bookstores, as well as references to other activities that areagainst Church teachings and are offensive to Catholics.( Based on the court documents, Mrs. Montesino de Stuart argued that abortion is, in fact, allowed in Ave Maria — which is in stark...

I am befuddled. Why would those who built a Catholic University and ostensibly a Catholic town to surround it, actively recruit and assist a business that performs work antithetical to Catholic teaching to the area? That seems to be exactly what is happening. Tom Monaghan and his development partners are actively recruiting Jackson Laboratory to the surrounding area and the University leadership is assisting. I understand that luring a large bio-tech company into the area could be a boon to the town and to the university, but at what price? Through facts dug up at AveWatch.com, I must say there...

Is Abortion Allowed In Monaghan’s Ave Maria? By MARIELENA MONTESINO de STUART“Now a lie is directly opposed to truth. Therefore dissimulation or hypocrisy is also” — St. Thomas Aquinas.Appearances Are DeceivingAppearances are deceiving — and such is the case in the Town of Ave Maria — a town named after the moment of conception of Our Lord and after the Blessed Virgin Mary.On November 5, 2009, during a press conference at Ave Maria University, the administration, various faculty members, and selected students proudly honored and gave a standing ovation to Tom Golisano, a billionaire with a long history of supporting...

Reading from the Book of Matthew, the Rev. Robert Garrity welcomed students, family and friends to Ave Maria University’s fifth annual commencement exercises. “You are the salt of the earth … you are the light of the world,” he told them Saturday in the school’s ornate Oratory. The 114 students who received degrees Saturday marked the largest graduating class in the school’s short history in Collier County. Commencement speaker Dr. Thomas Hilgers, an obstetrician from Omaha who Ave Maria President Nicholas Healy described as a pioneer in “gynecological practices that are line with the teachings of the Catholic Church,” used...

NAPLES, Fla. — On a remote 750-acre site near the Everglades, Ave Maria University, the nation's first new Roman Catholic university in four decades, is about to rise from the fields of peppers and tomatoes that stretch to the horizon. The founder of Ave Maria, Tom Monaghan, is better known as the founder of Domino's Pizza. He has grand plans for the university: majors as varied as theology and hotel management; a Division I football team; three golf courses, including one for donors only; and a new town, Ave Maria, with a commercial center joining the campus. But his mission...

Major Catholic university, college town set for Florida NAPLES, FLA. (November 20, 2002) - Officials today announced a new Catholic university will be built east of Naples, Fla., with a new town to support it.  The new school, Ave Maria University, will be an academic center of international scope founded on Catholic religious beliefs and committed to developing a Division I-caliber athletics program. It will be the first major new Catholic university to be founded in the United States in 40 years.  Officials at Ave Maria said they expect to draw outstanding students from all 50 states as well as from...

<p>NAPLES, Florida (AP) --Ave Maria University, the nation's first new Roman Catholic university in four decades, opened Tuesday with a Mass attended by the 101 students at its temporary campus.</p> <p>The university was established by Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, who has devoted himself to Roman Catholic causes since he sold the pizza chain in 1998.</p>