ABC News interview with Tom Monaghan and Barron Collier chief executive Paul Marinelli
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Friday, March 03, 2006
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2 Comments:
When I first heard Tom Monaghan's comments about no birth control and no abortion (these were quoted by a Baltimore reporter several months ago), I couldn't help reacting as I always have in the past: that this is a great witness.
In fact, my sentiments were much like the ones represented in the concluding statements in the article I have excerpted below, from "Holy Roman Empire" on TCS daily.
But the problem is that a mixed witness can be very damaging, and can defeat the very purpose the witness is trying to achieve. Yes, it's good to take a stand for the dignity of the person and for a culture of life. Such a stand is hard to take, and TSM has taken it before. Now the divide between him and Barron Collier seems to confuse the message. And what about the dignity of the person? Does this count for everybody, even donors, faculty and employees? Still, I pray that the witness of Ave Maria University holds against the negative witness of modern culture, which is why I am not adverse to helping stimulate a little repentance and renewal. It would be great to have AMU and AMSOL be the kind of shining cities on a hill that is envisioned in the article I mentioned below. Humility, submission to other authorities (such as the diocese of Venice and Lansing) and a sincere desire to seek, live by and uphold the truth can always help. It's easy to see your problems as stemming from a hostile, secular world or a bunch of negative employees, but it can be better to find what God has to say to you about how you can be a real light to the world and seek His help with it.
from HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE USA
by James Pinkerton
www.tcsdaily.com
Here's where the Catholics can say, "We've seen this before -- and we had a pretty good response." Back in the sixth century, after the fall of the Roman Empire, one Italian, Benedict of Nursia, didn't just bemoan the collapse of the world around him, he did something about it. He created a world of his own: the monastery at Monte Cassino. In honor of his vision, he is known to us now as St. Benedict the Great, the father of Christian monasticism. For hundreds of years thereafter, through the darkest of the Dark Ages, monasteries were the chief custodians of Western Civilization, until more traditional political authorities had restored some semblance of law, order, and prosperity, thus permitting cities to flourish once again. Is this particular epoch of history due for a repeat? Let's hope not, but let's hope that some people, at least, have a plan for surviving even the worst calamity. In the meantime, it's interesting that the new Pope has chosen the name Benedict -- one wonders what he knows.
MScience
--I have no disagreement with any of the points you have made in the last posting. In fact, as I said I am doing my best, in another venue (two, in fact). I think that what I am saying is that Tom Monaghan--like every other Christian--has the opportunity and responsibility to make public witness by the way he lives for Christ. His status as a public person means that what he does is noticed and often publicized, but he is still only one man.
Lay people can start universities or hospitals and can do so in a way that can also give witness. But that can't happen for more than a short time unless others are involved--others who share the vision and the values and who are making a sincere gift of themselves--not doing something urged or coerced or even bribed out of them. I believe strongly that it is the Body of Christ that serves God's plan of bringing the world to Himself most effectively. It can't be the witness of one man, however good, or the creation of one man. I'm not saying what the creators of AMU understand or don't understand about this principle, but it's one that will rule the outcome of their enterprise. Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain...
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