is a Christo-fascist, right wing, repubican numbnuts.
Tom Monaghan's Pizza Pilgrimageby Jeff Huber and Jerry Soucy
11 March 2006
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.— Mark 10:25 (Bible, KJV)
Civil libertarians are threatening to sue Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan over his plans to build a new city in Florida. Sixty-eight-year-old Monaghan wants to run the town of Ave Maria according to strict Roman Catholic principles. Monaghan and his development partner, Paul Marinelli of the Barron Collier Company, intend to control all of the town’s commercial real estate. If Monaghan gets his way, stores will not be able to sell pornography, pharmacies will be barred from selling condoms and other forms of birth control, and cable television companies will not be allowed to carry X-rated channels.
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His fortune assured, Monaghan devoted himself full time to “the Church and pro-life causes.” In a February 2000 interview with the Catholic opinion journal AD2000, he said, “I feel it’s God’s money and I want to use it for the highest-possible purpose — to help as many people as possible get to Heaven.”
He focused on Catholic education, Catholic media, pro-life politics and Catholic business leadership. To that end, he expanded his Ave Maria (Hail Mary) Foundation, which he had first established in 1983 as Mater Christi (Mother of Christ).
The empire of organizations and institutions established under Monaghan’s guidance and the Ave Maria umbrella include:
* • Legatus. Described by critics as “An elite group of Catholic millionaires” that backs an authoritarian cult called “The Word of God.” According to a 1991 article in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s The Tech, The Word of God “appoints ‘shepherds’ to control large aspects of its members’ lives, such as who they marry and where they live,” and preaches “that women are ‘the handmaidens of men.’”
* • Ave Maria Radio, the “Catholic Station for the Nation.” Its marquee talk show, Kresta in the Afternoon, is hosted by Michigan State University graduate Mike Kresta. Carried by 27 stations, the program “looks at all areas of life through the lens of Scripture and the teaching of the Catholic Church and takes on all comers.” Catholic Culture commends Ave Maria Radio for offering “… news, analysis, teaching, devotions and music to demonstrate the good news that Jesus is Lord over all areas of life.”
* • Ave Maria University. Established by Monaghan near Naples, Fla., through a personal grant of $250 million, AMU opened its doors in 2003. According to the university’s Web site, it welcomed more than 310 students from 41 states and 10 countries in 2004. Its stated role is to promote:
…the ongoing reflection of theologians and philosophers on the integration of the truths of the faith with the social, cultural, economic, and political developments in society … to explicate the truths of the faith, and measure against them the evolving societal propositions or practices in politics, the arts, the economy, etc. Two hundred or more years ago, those practices included slavery, laissez-faire capitalism and child labor. Fifty or more years ago, they included Marxism, Nazism and Freudianism. Today they include abortion, fetal research, cloning, same-sex “marriage,” moral relativism and world terrorism. It is the graduates of Ave Maria University who will become the Catholic intellectuals needed to bring the truths of the faith to bear on these issues.
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