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!"
That’s her? Really? I assumed she was young and beautiful. Never occurred to me that she would look so, uh...
Why is she out of the kitchen again?
-—But Melinda Gates believes that she knows better than the Pastors of the Church.-—
She’s not alone, sadly.
So basically she wants to be her own god?
So basically she wants to be her own god? Why does she promote premarital sex?
Yuck. Popeye the Sailor in drag.
She looks like a guy in that picture.
Opportunistic gold-digger.
Maybe so. But another way to look at it is that there were probably a lot of women who wanted to marry Bill Gates, if only for his money, and she's the one who actually was successful. In order to do that she had to get the proper training, get a job at Microsoft, and move up in the company with successful job performance until she was in the same room as Bill Gates. And that was just phase 1 of executing her plan. So yes, she is ambitious, but she must also be extremely smart. She didn't even have looks going for her so much, and Gates must have been very wary about gold-diggers. So if Bill Gates was looking for smart genes from his wife's side of the family, maybe he picked the right one.
Smart, schmart. She wanted to marry him so she’d get enough power to tell everybody else what to do. If she just wanted money I wouldn’t care.
They’ll still need someone to lube the pump jacks, take out the trash.
I’m not sure they’ve all thought this through.
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