Top Conservatives Fete Ave Maria Law School

From NewsMax.com:

Some of America's top conservative leaders, present and former government officials and legal scholars marked the fifth anniversary of Ave Maria Law School, the faith-based Ann Arbor, Mich. school critics predicted would never make it.

Ave Maria was founded specifically as a law school that emphasizes its Catholic roots and teaches law from the perspective of traditional Catholic moral teaching. It was established in 2000 by Domino's Pizza founder Thomas Monaghan, a devout Catholic, who says he was inspired by Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter "Fides et Ratio," (Faith and Reason).

According to a spokeswoman for the school, many dignataries among the 200 guests attending the anniversary celebration held at Washington's Hay Adams Hotel was Secretary of Veteran's Affairs, and former ambassador to the Vatican, Jim Nicholson; Theodore Olsen and Kenneth Starr, both former solicitors general; and former Supreme Court nominee, Judge Robert Bork who teaches law at the school. Also in attendance were Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; Janice Rogers Brown, federal Court of Appeals judge for the Washington, D.C. Circuit; former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department and former Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee; and Candace de Russy, a State University of New York trustee.

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