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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Ave Maria, a Florida community called a 'Catholic's paradise'

 Slice of heaven: Ave Maria, a planned community for Catholics built on the outskirts of Naples, Florida, is the brainchild of Tom Monaghan, the former Domino's CEO and onetime seminarian 
Ave Maria Town - a planned community on the outskirts of Naples, built by Domino's founder Tom Monaghan based on strict Catholic ideologies - is a society that practices too much of what the controversial former pizza CEO preaches.
 Ave Maria, designed as a family-friend college town 40 miles from Naples, sprung up in the southern part of the Sunshine State after the Florida legislature created the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District
In announcing his plans for the town in 2004, Monaghan, a one-time seminarian, said: 'There is not going to be any pornographic television in Ave Maria Town. If you go to the drug store and you want to buy the pill or the condoms or contraception, you won't be able to get that in Ave Maria Town.'
 The centrepiece of the community, which is still under development, is a large church, the facade of which displays sculptor Marton Varo's 30-foot-tall sculpture of the Annunciation, depicting the Archangel Gabriel greeting the Virgin Mary with the words 'Ave Maria' (Hail Mary)
While Monaghan took back the statements as the town took shape - after he donated $250 million to the cause - the now-fully-functional hamlet says it is open to all, but still appears to be wholly religious-centric

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