There’s something very special about Ave Maria and the people who live here. It’s a community centred on Christ. How many other towns o
r neighbourhoods in the United States or, for that matter, anywhere else in the modern world, could claim to have Christ as the central focus? Ave Maria is, therefore, very different as well as very special. For some people, no doubt, the difference is the problem. Such people, wishing to conform to what Evelyn Waugh described so aptly as “our deplorable epoch”, will not want to visit Ave Maria, let alone live here. So be it…
Contributed by Joseph Pearce
Ave Maria Living.com 
