Summary
A small, European-style town now wraps, horseshoe-style, around a 104-foot tall steel and stone cathedral called an "oratory" Streets with names like Pope John Paul II Boulevard branch off from the town center like spokes of a wheel toward neatly laid out subdivisions, where homes with barrel-tile roofs are springing up. In September 2004, the Rev. Neil Roy, then-academic dean of Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, sued the school and its board of trustees to try to halt the move, arguing that it would threaten the school's accreditation and the students' ability to receive financial aid. It's a story about any religious group trying to exercise governmental power, Howard Simon, executive director of Florida's ACLU, told MSNBC talk show host Tucker Carlson in 2006.
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Leap of Faith
In 2002, Tom Monaghan was looking for a new home for Ave Maria College, the Roman Catholic college he'd founded four years earlier. Monaghan had sold his interest in Domino's Pizza, the successful pizza chain he'd founded in 1960, for a reported $1 billion and had created Ave Maria as a training ground for a new generation of ultraobservant businessmen, politicians, lawyers, scientists, priests and educators.
With 260 students, the school had outgrown its campus in Ypsilanti, Mich., which lacked an adequate chapel, dining facilitie...See the full content of this document
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