Nuns Issue Statement Defending Billionaire Contraceptive Campaigner Melinda Gates

LifeSite News ^ | 5/10/12 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

[marshmallow]

May 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of Ursuline nuns whom billionaire Melinda Gates had claimed in a recent speech supports her campaign to inject tens of millions of women in impoverished countries with Depo-Provera and other contraceptive drugs, has issued a statement defending Gates and the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while simultaneously claiming to support Catholic moral teaching.

Gates recently told Newsweek that the nuns at the Ursuline Academy of Dallas, where she once attended school, were delighted to hear about her plans to initiate a global contraceptive campaign and contacted her to tell her: “We’re all for you. We know this is a difficult issue to speak on, but we absolutely believe that you’re living under Catholic values.” Melinda Gates speaking at the TedxChange talk.

“It was just so heartening,” Gates said of the phone call, which she says the Ursuline nuns made to her hotel room in Berlin, where she had just announced her intentions at a TEDxChange conference in early April.

In a statement on the matter issued yesterday to “employees, parents, students, alumnae, and other members of our school community” and obtained by LifeSiteNews.com, Academy President Margaret Ann Moser says that the nuns are “proud of Melinda French Gates, her dedication to social justice, her compassion for the underserved, and the great work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”

“Melinda Gates leads from her conscience, and acts on her beliefs as a concerned citizen of our world,” adds Moser, explaining, “The mission of Ursuline Academy of Dallas is to educate young women for such leadership.”

[Tax-chick]

Yes, George Stephanopolis is one of yours. Olympia Dukakis, too? But it’s true one rarely reads about lunatic Orthodox monastics. Perhaps it’s because there are so few in the English-speaking world that they’re just not on the MSM’s radar.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, I think it’s because our monastics tend to fall off the royal road on the right side when they go bad, and become fanatical monarchists, or rigorists who want to apply the canonical penances from The Rudder strictly, or Old Calendarists (meaning not just using the Old Calendar, but holding that any who use the New Calendar are devoid of grace), rather than going modern and secular.

[Tax-chick]

I see your point - there’s no real payoff in that for those who are opposed to Christianity to start with.

[guitarplayer1953]

If the Gates believe in population control why did they have children? To me the pop control freaks want everyone but themselves to not have children.

[mojito]

Here's a link to the story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gaithersburg-priest-defends-decision-to-deny-lesbian-communion/2012/03/14/gIQAJ5NwCS_story.html

It seems this story has been going on for some time, but the blog post I saw yesterday was the first I had heard of it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

They've been undisciplined for so long --- decades --- that now they're genuinely shocked if somebody (like Abp Sartain) suggests that "Your opinion, Sister, does not constitute Catholic doctrine."

Lack of teaching "the teaching" breeds contempt for the teaching.

Lack of enforcement of the law breeds contempt for the law.