Heaven on Earth? The Reality of Catholic Town – the Beginning of a New Trend


With moving to a new home, dealing with family crises, Lent, and adjusting to "normal" life after the spectacular pilgrimage to Rome, where I met and shook hands with the Holy Father, I am just a little behind on the news. I just read about the new Catholic town, Ave Maria, which is being developed by Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan. It sounds like Heaven on earth!

This is the way
T.O. at Lamland describes it: "It will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control. The town will be centred around the first Catholic university to be built in the US in 40 years, Ave Maria University, and both the town and the university are set to open next year about 25 miles east of Naples in southwestern Florida."

No abortion mills, porn shops, birth control prescriptions/pharmacies --
I knew this was too good to be totally true. An orthodox Catholic town devoid of the hedonistic pleasures and main pastimes for many in our secular society -- sounds like a new home for the ACLU and a goldmine for every (unethical) lawyer out to make a buck.

The sad thing is that no so long ago (at least to me) such towns existed in this country. My husband and I grew up in such towns in IL. What a different world it was then! In his small town comprised mainly of German Catholics (There was one Protestant family who lived in the town.), where many people attended daily Mass, recited the family rosary, and everyone ceased working on Holy Days of obligation. He attended a public elementary school which was taught by Catholic Sisters.

In the French Catholic town I grew up in, which was a little larger, families also prayed the rosary daily and attended daily Mass. Most of the town attended the St. Anne Novena held every July. Every student who was Catholic attended the Catholic parochial school. Many in the town attended a Catholic College (which later became a Protestant university.) Divorce, birth control, and abortion were all non-existent at that time. About 90% of the town's citizens were Catholic and lived a quiet, peaceful Catholic life until the emergence of the sexual revolution and the widespread use of the birth control pill in the mid to late 1960's hit the community. After that, divorce rates reached an all-time high, while people's morals sunk to an all-time low -- even in the small towns where we were raised.

Well, it seems to me that the trend is reversing itself; despite the ACLU’s and other non-secular group's best efforts. More and more Catholics are rising up and rebelling against society's immoral and outdated trends. People who grew up during the time period when one-third of their generation were murdered at the hands of their own parents are fighting for the right to life today and hold dear the morals that once existed prior to the sexual revolution of the '60's and the 70's. This is heart-warming and encouraging to me. It gives me hope that one day Roe V. Wade will be overturned, that the states will not allow immorality to prevail, but will reject the immoral behaviors that have destroyed our society, and that one day we will create a better world for our families.

If you read any of the secular blogs, you will discover how just how frightening and threatening a Catholic town is to their immoral life style. And, this is just the beginning of many changes to come.

Comments

  1. "And, this is just the beginning of many changes to come."

    You are right - the tide has turned. South Dakota is considering a ban on abortions and Mississippi and Missouri have just announced they will follow suit. We are winning in this fight for the culture of life. We may be on the eve of another spiritually-filled century.

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  2. I had those two events in mind when I wrote this. I don't think it will be long now until Roe V. Wade is overturned and legalized abortion becomes a thing of the past. People want change and are praying, fasting, and working actively for it.

    Thanks for your comment.

    God bless you,
    Jean

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