Catholic University Planned in Florida

WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 21, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas Monaghan pledged at least $220 million to build a Catholic university and a town to support it on 5,750 acres near Naples, Florida.

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All faculty members of Ave Maria University who teach theology will be required to obtain a mandatum, in compliance with John Paul II’s 1990 apostolic constitution «Ex Corde Ecclesiae» on Catholic universities, the Washington Post reported today.

Monaghan said he spent about $80 million to start an undergraduate college in 1998 at a temporary site in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and to found Ave Maria Law School in nearby Ann Arbor in 1999. The new school hopes to receive students next fall.

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