During yesterday's opening ceremonies at Ave Maria University, Tom Monaghan's classy panache shined through as he saw fit to call former Michigan college faculty employees "academic terrorists".

One of the most prominent canon lawyers in America, Edward Peters, asks "why".

Excerpt: "Tom Monaghan, in contrast, seems to think that his paterfamilias style of philanthropy permits him to show continual scorn for the vanquished, those who dared to question his judgment about various projects, projects to which they, often as much and sometimes more than he, contributed, but in which he allowed them little or no voice."

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