Contraception? Not in my tropical backyard

The founder of Domino's is founding a town to embody his conservative Catholic ideals. I wonder if there will be any low-income housing?

Abortions, pornography and contraceptives will be banned in the new Florida town of Ave Maria, which has begun to take shape on former vegetable farms 90 miles northwest of Miami.

Tom Monaghan, the founder of the Domino’s Pizza chain, has stirred protests from civil rights activists by declaring that Ave Maria’s pharmacies will not be allowed to sell condoms or birth control pills. The town’s cable television network will carry no X-rated channels.

The town will be centred around a 100ft tall oratory and the first Catholic university to be built in America for 40 years. . . .

Monaghan, 68, sold his takeaway chain in 1998 for an estimated $1 billion (£573m). A devout Catholic who has ploughed millions into religious projects — including radio stations, primary schools and a Catholic law faculty in Michigan — Monaghan has bought about 5,000 acres previously used by migrant farmers.

The Sunday Times titled this article Pizza pope builds a Catholic heaven. I hope that's a typo and the venerable Times meant "Catholic haven." Heaven as a place to force conformity, to refuse to change and be changed by the whole uncooperative world? I don't think so. I don't think either of these Catholics thought so either.

Update: According to Working for Change, Monaghan is developing low-income housing in Ave Maria and nearby towns. Good. But this article also tells of his plans to have Mass said hourly in a town of 30,000 souls. Does this seem like an irresponsible, if not impossible, use of ministerial time in a nation with one priest to every 2,200 Catholics?