Pizza billionaire Tom Monaghan believes the Lord is with him as he lays the foundations for the town he calls Ave Maria — Hail Mary — on 5,000 acres of land, 125 miles  northwest of Miami.

Built around the United States' first new Catholic university in four decades and dominated by its 30-metre-high oratory, the community will be run on strict — some say unconstitutionally so — Catholic principles. No condoms or birth-control pills in the drugstores, no X-rated movies on cable TV, and you'll have to go elsewhere for Playboy and other "adult" publications.