Posted on 04/20/2012 8:15:10 AM PDT by cleghornboy
"The most important men in town would come to fawn on me! They would ask me to advise them, Like a Solomon the Wise. "If you please, Reb Tevye..." "Pardon me, Reb Tevye..." Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes! And it won't make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong. When you're rich, they think you really know!"
C-FAM is reporting that Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a Catholic, is telling governments to dismiss the controversial link between contraception and population control and explicitly rejects Catholic social teaching along the way...Speaking at a TedxChange conference in Berlin, Germany, Gates argued that contraception has been mistakenly associated with population control, abortion, forced sterilization, and mortal sin and insisted they are 'side issues.'" See here.
The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes), No. 51, says that, "..God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life in a manner which is worthy of man. Therefore, from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care, while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes." Abortion is not a "side issue." It is an unspeakable crime.
The same document teaches that, "...sons of the Church may not undertake methods of birth control which are found blameworthy by the teaching authority of the Church in its unfolding of the divine law." (No. 51).
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, citing Humanae Vitae, the Encyclical Letter of Pope Paul VI, teaches that, "...'every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible' is intrinsically evil.." (2370).
But Melinda Gates believes that she knows better than the Pastors of the Church. Pope John Paul II, in his Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth) teaches that the Church's more-than-human authority "is apparent from the living Tradition" and then confirms this by citing a key passage from Dei Verbum, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, which reminds us that, "the task of authentically interpreting the word of God, whether in its written form or in that of Tradition, has been entrusted only to those charged with the Church's living Magisterium, whose authority is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ" (Veritatis Splendor, No. 27, with internal citation from Dei Verbum, No. 10).
Faith demands a renunciation of the sinful self. Pride must give way in every Catholic's life to humility, which is but a readiness to accept everything good as God's gift and to than Him for it (see Aquinas, S.t., 2-2, q. 161, aa.2-3). When we allow ourselves to succumb to pride, humility is viewed as a threat to the self. As a result, sinners who lack faith and believers whose faith has been weakened through habit to sinning will be the more tempted to reject faith in order to avoid self-renunciation - the renunciation of their sinful selves (John 3: 16-21).
Melinda Gates is chained by abundance. Her material wealth has contributed to a pathological pride. And this pride has led her to embrace self-assertion. Dr. Germain Grisez explains that, "Removed from its evangelical context, the Christian insight into each individual's worth is perverted to rationalize sin. Thus, post-Christian humankind is susceptible to a distinctive moral pathology: egoistic individualism, which exalts the well-being and satisfaction of individuals above every community, even the family. When colored by this pathology, pride is not expressed exclusively by the quest for positions of social superiority; also, and even more arrogantly, it is seen in every individual's effort to be his or her own sovereign. Thus, the contemporary attachment to liberty to do as one pleases: 'No one can tell me what to do.' This attitude leads to rejection of authority generally as well as an unwillingness to accept any social responsibility toward people for whom one has no personal feelings. Other people are to be ignored except to the extent that they are relevant to one's own purposes or can be made so. Then they are to be dominated and manipulated, so that at least they will allow one to gain one's ends and at best will serve one's purposes."
The real tragedy is that many will no doubt be confused or led astray by Melinda Gates because, as Topol expressed in song, "When you're rich, they think you really know!"
I may be wrong, but I think she just married rich.
Is that why she has only one child? And, is she raising that child Catholic?
This person said Melinda, when she noticed Bill's success from afar, told everyone she was going to marry him and control his money. And she moved to Gates' town and did exactly that.
Opportunistic gold-digger. Gates would probably have been a conservative if it wasn't for this obsessive left-wing climber.
The richest people at the time they funded Population control.
I think the head of BP said what they all think.
When he said we will take care of the little people.
They hate the little people
She probably won’t put out—agreed to have sex with that homely dork one time only...
“’No one can tell me what to do.’ This attitude leads to rejection of authority...”
Specifically, rejection of the Word of God, the plain meaning as written in scripture as well as the meaning as informed by our concience.
hear me roar and all that dark side fembot crap I'm glad I was spared in my marriage
Bill has grown more handsome in his old age I think to be fair.
How can anyone, ever, consider the creator of Microsoft Bob (look it up) and Clippy the “Assistant”, be considered wise?
Oh, she looked a lot better years back. Looks are just one thing, her driving ambition to appropriate Gates’ money to make herself a kind of empress was quite another. Cleopatra wasn’t necessarily beautiful.
I keep looking for who the "mystery" woman is who will fill the role of the Whore of Babylon.
Melinda and Bill gates have three children, spaced three years apart. During the same speech this writer is talking about, Melinda Gates explained that contraception enabled her to go to college, grad school, start a career, and have her three children exactly when she planned to. (Just reporting; not endorsing her views!)
The Gates have three children.
I apologise. Prior to this news, I’d only heard of one, a child handsomely provided for in a trust they set up.
“Bill has grown more handsome in his old age...”
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Ward, I’m worried about the Daddy...
“....a Catholic...and explicitly rejects Catholic social teaching along the way..”
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It doesn’t work that way, honey, no matter how much Earthly riches Billy accumulates....
“for what profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul”
Some people like a mirrors reflection when they look at their spouse.
From that photo, it is obvious that she needs to select a new beauty salon. Her eyebrows are in need of tweezing. Plus, they are far darker than her hair. So, the eyebrow issue needs to be resolved. Plus, she needs a hair style that enhances her face and not detract from it. She is not a beautiful woman, but with proper hair/brow styling and makeup, she would be far more attractive.
Unfortunately, none of that would improve her thought process one iota. One has to wonder just why so many of these so-called Catholics who have lots of money think they are smarter and wiser when it comes to morality than the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. Why do these people think that somehow morality in the 21st century has a different set of standards than in the 2,000 years since Jesus Christ?
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