[Alex Murphy]

As I understand it, Thomas Monaghan would have been the speculative landower, in turn selling lots (or building permits, at least) to housing contractors, business owners, developers, etc for a profit. He is using his money - benefitting from the capitalist/free market system that encourages private property - and taking an entrepreneurial risk in order to develop a morals-based community out of undeveloped land.

Bravo! IMO a landowner's duty is to enforce God's laws within his or her own property, and his or her last act as landowner should be to insure that whoever he passes the land onto is one who believes in doing likewise. In my experience, neighborhoods "go bad" when previous property owners sell out to the highest bidder, focusing more on their next home than being concerned about what they're allowing into the old neighborhood.

Whether Monaghan is doing this out of an entrepreneurial quest for profit, or out of a personal faith, matters not to me. The initial results are the same, and I applaud them. Now let's see what happens in ten years, after a portion of the original homeowners have moved on...

[vladimir998]

Makes me wish I were a college student again...but I hate humidity!

[GCC Catholic]

The school will not be associated with any church Diocese or church order but will claim to teach the "true Catholicism."

I'm not quite sure how that would work. As far as I understood, in order for a school to call itself Catholic, it must have the approval of the local bishop. In addition, it must follow the Mandatum put in place several years ago by the Vatican. I don't doubt that Monaghan is genuine, but I just don't see how he can operate completely independent of a diocese. Maybe that's not what that statement means though.