Hail Mary
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The next morning, i set out on my bicycle toward Ave Maria Town, the future site of the university. It was a long ride from Naples—and a journey into a different economy. When I detoured into the town of Immokalee, just six miles from the new Ave Maria, the houses lining the road were decrepit and had peeling paint, and the businesses on the main drag—La Michoacana, El Paraiso Restaurant—had bars on the windows.
Immokalee is the hub of southwest Florida's agriculture industry, and during growing season upward of 35,000 people live here. The residents are migrant laborers, most of them from Mexico, Guatemala, and Haiti, and often they're housed miles from town, in trailers chockablock with bunk beds. One Justice Department official has called Immokalee "ground zero for modern slavery." His agency has successfully prosecuted six cases of involuntary servitude involving Immokalee-area workers in the past decade. A local advocacy group, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, has earned the ardent support of Catholic groups such as Pax Christi. But when I visited ciw's offices, it was clear that their relations with Ave Maria were icy. No one there would speak on the record about Monaghan's project.
I rode on toward Ave Maria Town, anticipating a pleasant, if cloistered, new urbanist mecca. On the development's website, avemaria.com, it says that the community "has been designed to human scale. Street networks, distinctive character, and environmental sustainability are integral to its planning." One future resident, construction manager Darryl Klein, who has six children, had told me earlier that he'd moved his family from South Carolina because Ave Maria represented "the ideal American community. It'll be a place where you know your neighbors. We'll be around like-minded people. The kids that play with my kids—they'll go to the same church as us. And we'll be accepted."
I came around a curve in the road and saw the steel skeleton of the oratory rising out of nowhere, giant and irrefutable above the flat orange groves. The concrete shells of the university buildings surrounding it were gray blobs in the distance. I turned right, following a phalanx of construction rigs—at a distance because I'd been denied a tour of the town, too. Then, as I neared the security gate, I saw my moment. The guards, not hearing a motor, were looking away, so I bent low and pedaled all-out for the holy land. For roughly a quarter-mile I was in the clear. But then a security truck pulled up beside me, its yellow roof lights aglow and fluttering. "Who are you with?" said the guard, sternly. "I'm just, like, on a training ride," I said. A few seconds later I was back on the road to Naples.
I visited the makeshift ave maria campus one more time, on a quiet Tuesday evening, when I went back to the library to leaf through a book that many regard as the manifesto for Catholic educators: The Idea of a University, written by Cardinal John Henry Newman in 1852. The church "fears no knowledge," Newman says, "but she purifies all; she represses no element of our nature, but cultivates the whole." Elsewhere, Newman writes, "I wish the intellect to range with the utmost freedom."
Soon after I jotted down these words, there was a rustling behind me: Someone was stepping in through the library door, and I turned to look. Lantern Jaw. For a second, our eyes locked. And then, not two minutes later, a dapper student security guard in a black tie was stooping beside my study carrel and speaking in murmurous tones: "I'm sorry, sir, but..."
I'd read about Ave Maria's uniformed forces earlier, in the Angelus, where the school's director of physical plant and security, Thomas Minick, was quoted saying that, in their vigilance, his boys were "no different than the 18- and 19-year-old Marines, sailors, and Army centurions who are guarding posts all around the world for the military." I did not have a fighting chance. And so, without protest, I let the guard escort me outside, to my bike.
Then I rode away through the dark. Ave Maria was behind me, a bright island of light in Naples' endless archipelago of separate, gated, green-grass communities, and I thought of the students sequestered there. I imagined them all huddled together, far from the rest of the world, in fear of their God. And I did pray for them, yes. And for my church.
Comments:
I am a student at Ave Maria University, actually going to be a junior and majoring in Economics. I come from the very worldly Southern California, Orange County. I cannot stand all of the negativity directed towards a new school that is strict Catholic that also happens to also have a town. My parents bought a condo at the new town because it will be a great place to live. Most schools today have lost all sense of morality as there are kids casually having sex, doing drugs, and definetly not studying. These kids at Ave Maria just want to develop themselves to be good people, to be examples to those poor kids. I guess you could call me the girl who has acted up a bit, Im definetly not shy and I definetly know what Im doing. I want to be surrounded by good people that can be good examples to me. This Article is a pathetic imitation of what another brainwashed liberal would say, Someone with no faith and no intention to strive for Holiness.
The part of the article were you thought you found the "bad boys" who were going to a kegger, you sounded excited. Why? Students go to college to get an education, in this case a $25,000 education, one that they do not want to squander away. For your information the academics at this school are so incredibly tough right now because we are getting accredited, there really is no time to party.... Its for the poor souls like your own that we are praying for that you may be soon guided in the right direction.
onlyarosew@yahoo.com
Posted by:RosannahJuly 24, 2007 1:48:36 AMRespond ^
With Christian fundamentalism's insidiously creeping take-over of the So. Baptist Convention, and the political process in America, why not the Catholic Church, too?
Posted by:Rev. Dr. Wallace B. LandeAugust 2, 2007 6:50:03 AMRespond ^
With Christian fundamentalism's insidiously creeping take-over of the So. Baptist Convention, and the political process in America, why not the Catholic Church, too?
Posted by:Rev. Dr. Wallace B. LandeAugust 2, 2007 6:50:24 AMRespond ^
Watch an indepth interview with Tom Monaghan on www.BocaRaton.com | http://bocaraton.com/index.aspx?pid=689
Posted by:Russell SpadacciniAugust 11, 2007 4:25:50 PMRespond ^
A wonderful article whose playful irony perfectly exposes the travesty of ultra-conservative Catholicism. What would Franz Jägerstätter, Dorothy Day, or Joan Chittister say about such a church as this one, founded in the style of Pat Robertson? Ugh! is the answer. Catholic? NOT!
Sincerely,
Your local tree-hugging admirer of John Dear, the Maryknolls, and friends of the Berrigans
Posted by:John DwyerAugust 14, 2007 4:03:50 PMRespond ^
The average price for a home in Naples is in the $400s, not $1.95 million, and most are less than $300,000.
--Naples area Real Estate licensee
Posted by:JAugust 14, 2007 8:50:21 PMRespond ^
...and for today's young Catholics to view the Second Vatican Council as some sort of a moral and spiritual demise is not only sad, it's downright appalling. Pope John XXIII's window of fresh air has been effectively slammed shut. It's time for progressive Catholics to stand up, speak out, and reclaim our Church.
Posted by:T. MooreAugust 15, 2007 9:47:33 PMRespond ^
Perhaps you should start praying for yourself! What Church are you praying for? A church where no ones listens to God only to themselves? Is that Church? A liberal church that is half empty because its priests give sermons that have less meaning than the Real World on MTV? Is that the one you are praying for? I hope so. Most of the growing churches and religious orders are CATHOLIC, not some humanitarian ogranzition that professes Christ but then disavows his teachings. Pray for yourself and your Church, I think mine is doing pretty well.
Posted by:LeeAugust 27, 2007 9:07:20 AMRespond ^
I think this is a great idea and hope and pray to Our Dear Lady I can sell my home in Cape Coral and move to Ave Maria.
Posted by:Frances DumontAugust 27, 2007 5:59:13 PMRespond ^
"definetly" "definetly" "definetly" That a junior at Ave Maria doesn't know how to spell a word as quotidian as "definitely" tells me all I need to know about the academic standards of the "university."
Posted by:SusanAugust 28, 2007 5:31:30 AMRespond ^
Seriously? The only thing you can think to attact this girl on is her spelling of "definitely"? That is ridiculous! If you don't have anything of more interest to say, then let's attact someone on their spelling. Obviously, this girl is intelligent. Intelligent people don't always spell things correctly. There are many intelligent people who cannot spell. Some have what is called dyslexia. Did think of that? You obviously do not know the difference between intelligence and knowing how to spell things, so shhhhh.
Posted by:EllenAugust 28, 2007 11:05:57 AMRespond ^
Hey Rosannah, I am too a junior; but i go to the university of New Orleans. I need you to know that just because I have casual sex (safely of course), do drugs, and party does not mean I'm a bad person. I'm sick of people like you that ignorantly proclaim that if one does those things, he must be evil. I volunteer, I donate money to proper causes, I treat all people with respect (even the gays which you probably hate), I honor my parents, and yes I study and get good grades. So please quit assuming that all adults who have fun are mere junkies. And if you want to "develop" yourself to be a good example for "poor" kids like me, save your time and your 25,000 because I never want to be like you and your unreasonable crowd.
Posted by:Jose HillSeptember 20, 2007 12:45:42 PMRespond ^
in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen , hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou amoung women and blessed the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen
Posted by:Lu LuSeptember 26, 2007 10:34:08 AMRespond ^
Well Jose, In January of this year I moved away from New Orleans. I got tired of people killing people as a means to settle their differences. Not to say that doesn't happen other places, but New Orleans seems to have it happen more often.
Also, I firmly believe that Katrina was no coincidence given it struck two days before Decadent Weekend.
New Orleans needs to clean up it's act in more ways than one. Good moral character would respect human life and the dignity of all people. Casual sex is nor more than a selfish means of personal gratification and not what God intended when He created human beings. He intended sex to be a way we could share in creation of another human being and express a love as deep as any human can feel. When you detach love from sex, you may as well be an animal.
In my opinion, Katrina was a "baptisim" for New Orleans. I hope the city emerges from it with a new life focused more on what it needs to do to change direction.
Using drugs and having casual sex is a sign of immaturity. It's time for New Orleans to "grow up".
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Posted by:justin woodsOctober 29, 2007 2:59:02 AMRespond ^
Hi
I'm a UK documentary-maker interesting in following Ave Maria university in its first year - I know I'm late! Anyone who is interested in getting involved with me can get in touch at info@luminoustv.co.uk. Thanks.
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Posted by:cillianOctober 29, 2007 12:16:23 PMRespond ^
Wow. It's like the Dark Ages all over again, except with modern technology. Can't you people see that this kind of homogeneous, paranoid, conformist ideology is just as dangerous as what the evangelical protestants and radical Muslims are doing? God, I thought that the Catholic Church had LEARNED from the past. Vatican II was a good thing! It needs to go farther, not backward!
Posted by:JamesOctober 31, 2007 12:14:10 AMRespond ^
I wrote this letter to the editor of Mother Jones, but when the published it, they chopped it to pieces. Here is the original text: This morning my father-in-law handed me his Mother Jones magazine and said I should read the article about Ave Maria college. I looked forward to taking a few minutes to do this. I don't know much about Ave Maria, but have heard it is generally regarded as among the more authentically-Catholic colleges in the USA, where most others have drifted away from their Catholic (and Protestant) origins in one direction or another.
Bill Donahue is clearly able to turn a decent sentence and, as is so popular in journalism these days, say what he really wishes to say without ever actually saying it (or find other people to say it for him). However, it might have saved some ink if he had just written one line. "I think Ave Maria is stupid, backwards and silly," would have summed his general message. But that wouldn't have sounded very sophisticated, would it? Instead, we received five pages of carefully crafted short stories and filler to make us feel like Ave Maria is, well, stupid, backwards and silly.
Like watching a skillfully acted movie or play, it is interesting to read something that is well written, regardless of the message, but I was ultimately disappointed because I didn't actually learn anything useful about Ave Maria. All I really learned about was the author; between his arrogance and obvious ignorance of actual Catholicism -- an unfortunate, insuperable combination of traits -- all an astute reader will come away with is that Bill feels really uncomfortable about Ave Maria. Apparently, if we can't do away with those who make us uncomfortable, and if we're not willing to make any attempt to actually understand their points of view, there is money to be made and satisfaction to be had in artfully mocking them and everything they believe in.
How sad.
Posted by:Seth MurrayNovember 9, 2007 11:09:41 AMRespond ^
I don't know.
Here I am, doing a project for my Anthropology of Place class, trying to analyze Ave Maria in terms of human meaning-making, the creation of ideal place, and the clash of conservative and liberal values taking place in a physical space.
This article is what first got me interested in the development, and each time I read it, I find I like it just as much.
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