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 Special Masses, a panel and lecture Wednesday and Thursday at Ave Maria University will honor Pope Benedict XVI and celebrate his Petrine Ministry.
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The sound of the blues filled the Ave Maria town center Saturday afternoon as for the Blues, Brews and BBQ event which drew people from throughout southwest Florida. Above, a couple from Naples, and their toy poodle, danced to Little Eddie and the Fat Fingers.
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 Cardinal Donald Wuerl, just three days before leaving for the papal conclave in Rome, praised Ave Maria University for its committment to quality education and its mission to instill values in young people. The cardinal spoke at an AMU fundraising dinner in Naples, at which an honorary doctorate degree was conferred on AMU supporter Rhodora Donahue. Above Mrs. Donahue with Cardinal Wuerl, her husband, Jack, and AMU President Jim Towey.
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About 60 people from across Florida and seven other states explored making the ancient art of Gregorian Chant part of 21st-century liturgies, among other topics at the Musica Sacra Florida Gregorian Chant Conference at Ave Maria Univeristy. Above, Edward Schaefer directs a men's schola at an ordinary form Mass Saturday.
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About 100 Ave Maria University students journeyed back in time Saturday night for the annual 19th-century ball. Above, l-r, Leah Johanni, John Miller, Colleen Kilpatrick and David Kiernan were among those who donned traditional 19th-century dress for the occasion.
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 One of the most unusual all-night parties in Southwest Florida was the 24-hour "Homerathon" reading of the entire Iliad at Ave Maria University, writes Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette in her column in the Naples Daily News Collier Citizen. Pictured is Prof. Stanley Lombardo of the U of Kansas, who capped the event by reading from his modern translation of the epic poem.
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 The announcement of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation was met with an outpouring of prayers for the pontiff in Ave Maria, a town with a uniquely Catholic character. "Many of us are still reeling from the news," Ave Maria University director of campus ministry Fr. Robert McTeigue said.
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More than 60 Ave Maria University students and faculty staged a 24-hour "Homerathon" reading of an updated translation of the entire Iliad from Friday to Saturday evening. A stirring reading by Prof. Stanley Lombardo, whose version was used, concluded the event.
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A pair of red-shouldered hawks has taken up residence in a nest in the Ave Maria town center, across a walkway from the bank building.
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Young people in America can be leaders in defending the founding principles of the United States only if they are not timid and speak up without fear of offending people, conservative political veteran Bay Buchanan told an audience at Ave Maria University Monday evening.
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The Ave Maria Cub Scouts held their 2nd Pinewood Derby Saturday, with 5th-grader Luke Klein taking the honors for the fast car in town. Above, family and friends watching cars cross the finish line of the aluminum track. (photo Alicia Ritter)
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Ave Maria University President Jim Towey said Friday that he was "disappointed" with the announcement earlier in the day by the federal government which the Obama administration called a "compromise" on the issue of mandating organizations to provide health care coverage for birth control services. "The Obama administration blew it again," Mr. Towey saId, with new regulations that "do not appear to settle anything."
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 Students and faculty at Ave Maria University will read the entire Iliad by Homer over 24 hours Feb. 8-9. The reading, which is open to the public, will use a modern translation for the 21st century by classics scholar Stanley Lombardo, who will read the final book himself. Right, AMU professor Travis Curtright who organized the Homerathon.
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Students at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria prayed a "living rosary," in which each student was a bead, Wednesday as part of the school's events marking Catholic Schools Week.
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The Major League Soccer Chicago Fire won their first exhibition match this year, beating Florida Gulf Coast University 2-0 Sunday at North Park in Ave Maria.
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Clouds of charcoal smoke billowed over the Ave Maria town center for the third annual Sunshine State Steak Cook Off, one of a number of activities that took place on a busy Saturday in town. A grill team headed by Ave Maria resident Jim Hess took top honors in the steak competition.
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Hundreds of people from Ave Maria joined hundreds of thousands of others from across the country Friday in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., held 40 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. (photo by Elizabeth Kirk)
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 The founder of Ave Maria University was upbeat about the prospects for the school and the town of Ave Maria when he spoke to fundraiser at AMU Wednesday. "My ideas are good if I have enough time and money," he said.
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More than 200 people from Ave Maria, including students and residents, will be in Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life on Friday, Jan. 25. This year's march marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Above, AMU students boarding a bus Wednesday night for the 21-hour trip.
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It's one thing to be able to grill a steak, and quite another to be able to serve up 1,500 of them in short order as organizers were able to do at the Sunshine State Steak Cook Off in Ave Maria, as Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette writes in her Collier Citizen column.