டோமினோ பிட்ஸா அதிபதி கத்தோலிக்கர்கள் மட்டும் வாழ நகரம் கட்டுகிறார்

தாலிபான்கள் கட்ட விரும்பிய நாடு போல கிறிஸ்துவர்களும் ஆரம்பித்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
டோமினோ பிட்சா கடைகளின் அதிபதி தன் பணத்தை எடுத்து புளோரிடாவில் கத்தோலிக்க தாலிபான் நகரத்தை கட்ட இருக்கிறார்.

இங்கு மருந்து கடைகளில் கத்தோலிக்க மத அமைப்பு ஒப்புக்கொள்ளாத எந்த மருந்தும் கிடைககாதாம். ஆணுறைகள் கிடைக்காது. கருத்தடை செய்யமுடியாது. பெண்கள் உடையை கத்தோலிக்க நகரமே நிர்ணயிக்கும். பல பத்திரிக்கைகள் வீடியோக்கள் கிடைக்காது.


Conservative Businessman to Create New Community
Domino's Pizza Founder Converts Florida Wilderness to 'Ave Maria,' an 11,000-Home Community
Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, talks about his vision for the new town of Ave Maria, about 20 miles outside of Naples, Fla. in July 2007. (J. Pat Carter/AP Photo)From Nightline By MARTIN BASHIR and DAN MORRIS
Aug. 7, 2007

A one-time wilderness in Florida is being transformed into the Promised Land. A buccaneering businessman with strong Catholic values wants to build a new community from scratch.

Tom Monaghan, founder of the worldwide Domino's Pizza chain, is sinking his billion-dollar fortune into a new town called Ave Maria, a joint venture with a local developer. It will number 11,000 new homes and, unsurprisingly for a man who opposes abortion, contraception and homosexuality, at the summit of this planned community is not a golf course but a church.

Across the road from the church is Monaghan's other singular contribution to the development, a new Catholic university that will house over 5,000 students.

"We need a new kind of Catholic school with an emphasis on combining excellence in spiritual aspect and also excellence in education," he said.


From Poverty to Priesthood
So what prompted this 70-year-old entrepreneur to pursue his dream of building a kind of Catholic heaven on 5,000 acres of earth?

It may be because Tom Monaghan has been searching for a community like Ave Maria for most of his life. He was born in March 1937 into a poor family of unskilled workers -- his mother a domestic servant, his father (and hero) a truck driver.

"I was so poor, and I was always conscious of what other kids had," he said. "I had to scrape the manure off my shoes when I went to school and I had to keep my feet on the floor so you couldn't see the soles of my shoes."

By 10th grade, Monaghan had decided to join the priesthood and was accepted into seminary, but he lasted less than a year.

"[The] rector said I didn't have a vocation… so he said, 'Tom, when you're packing your bags for Easter, pack them for good.' And I cried," Monaghan recalled. "I was crushed 'cause I thought I was more interested in being a priest than almost every kid in that seminary."

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