Nightline Calls Ave Maria U "A Catholic Jonestown"
(Hat tip: Custos Fidei, again)
From NewsBusters:
On Tuesday’s edition of "Nightline," anchor Martin Bashir interviewed businessman Tom Monaghan, founder of a new Catholic university in Florida and also a community called Ave Maria that will be based around Catholic values. Bashir parroted criticism that the town has "been described as a Catholic Jonestown, a kind of Catholic Iran, where individual rights and liberties are curtailed."My Comments:
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Although the Jonestown analogy is highly inflammatory and inappropriate, there sure have been a whole lot of Catholics who ought to know better that have been lining up to drink Tom Monaghan's kool-aid.
Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
"Let's face it, ... Sir Thomas More would have been denied tenure today ..."
Ave Maria Law Faculty Speak Out - Substantial Majority of Faculty Have No Plans to Participate in Relocation
Washington Post Weighs in on Misguided Magnate of Mozzarella
Ave Maria to Keep Ex-Provost After Outcry (3 articles)
Understatement of the Day
Moneyman Monaghan's Megalomaniacal Meltdown
Professor Rice Responds
What If You Started a Law School Dedicated to the Study of Law in the Catholic Legal Tradition ...
Labels: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Education, Higher Education, Humor
posted by Pro Ecclesia 8:07 AM
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1 Comments:
To call Martin Bashir a toad is an insult to that fine amphibian species. To compare AMT to Iran says more about Bashir (namely, he's a certified dips--t) than it does about the town.
But.
As you say, it's extraordinarily difficult to work up a lot of sympathy for anyone who still docilely associates himself with Monaghan's projects.
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