'Pizza pope' builds a Catholic heaven
I have mixed feelings about this. It would be quite nice to live in a place permeated with a Catholic culture, however, I don't think building a city separated from the rest of the world is good way to spread that culture. We were told to be "in the world but not of the world" (John 17:13-19).
Now, it may be that a place like Ave Maria could form people who would go out and change society, but it just seems to me to be a place to get away from the rest of the world.
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Hey sweet, I just posted basically the same thing, before I knew you'd found the same link.
Great minds and all that, no doubt.
No doubt, indeed.
I just posted a comment on your post ... AND THEN DISCOVERED THAT YOU HAD COMMENTED ON MY POST!
I don't quite know what to say...
It seems that Monaghan's absolute rules in a town that will be open to the public is kind of interesting. It doesn't seem right. I also agree with what you say about the town becoming an escape rather than an evangelizing tool. I'm sure enforcing restrictions on various business people will not make them suddenly open to accepting Catholic doctrines and rules. Its a good idea, but I think he's going about it the wrong way. And I don't know which way would be the right way to go about it.
man with black hat: Hail Mary Revisited
"[N]ot a 'town' in the traditional sense of being designed for pedestrian traffic, but rather a suburb designed for the automobile... a monument to consumption and excess for which the American suburb has become known in over half a century... which is more 'cultural Calvinist' than it is Catholic, regardless of how many streets are named for saints."
Included in my above link is a presentation on "new urbanism." Well worth viewing, for those interested in how a "town" is supposed to look.
Thanks for all the comments.
Here's the link that David mentioned:
http://www.cnu.org/about/index.cfm?formAction=tour&CFID=12257480&CFTOKEN=62716797
I agree. The idea of a "walkable" city is brilliant ... it would take work but would be worth it. Also, I think we really need to work on revitalizing our existing towns and making them more livable before we make new ones.
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