Tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida are paid roughly 45 cents for every 32 pound bucket they pick. On average, they earn about $10,000 per year. A few miles down the road in Ave Maria, on land once farmed for tomatoes, you can buy a house with a swimming pool for nearly $500,000.
When I ask Pascual, a migrant worker in Immokalee, if [see entire entry...]
Before this week, I’d never been to a Catholic Mass. Since Saturday, I’ve racked up three at Immokalee’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church – two in Spanish and one in Haitian Creole. Padre Ettore, the lead priest, told me not to bother going to the mass in English. “That’s for the old timers,” he said, “and drained of life.”
The Haitian mass was first, starting at [see entire entry...]
One of the things I picked up yesterday while attending Latin Mass was a copy of The Angelus, Ave Maria’s student newspaper. I had already heard a lot about this paper. It is referenced in Bill Donahue’s story in last month’s issue of Mother Jones and had made several other appearances in publications about Ave Maria. Being of curious mind, of course I had to read the document for myself.
Since it is not [see entire entry...]
About ten miles outside of Fort Myers, Florida, where strip malls and outlets give way to perfectly symmetrical lines of orange trees, the traffic on the two-lane highway slows to a crawl. I am stuck behind a citrus truck whose caged bay is overflowing with oranges, and they bounce up and down with bumps in the road. I’m on my way to Immokalee, a small town [see entire entry...]
In doing research for this story, sources have consistently told me that Ave Maria is far more conservative than the average American Catholic. One aspect of their liturgical conservatism being the practice of a Latin Mass.
So today I decided that I should experience one of these for myself. Keep in mind that as the product of a typical hippie union, I think I can count the number of times that I have been to church [see entire entry...]
Though the secular press mostly passed on the story surrounding the firing and subsequent rehiring of Father Fessio from Ave Maria University, the Catholic blogosphere has continued with the story. It seems that behind the ruckus were some fairly interesting liturgical debates about the legitimacy of charismatic Catholicism.
New Liturgical Movement
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The town of Ave Maria, Florida is a new experiment in Catholicism — an American town centered around a church. The town is still being built, and is scheduled to open this summer. We took a trip to the area recently to explore the literal building of a [see entire entry...]
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