Vatican newspaper says Melinda Gates misinformed
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L’Osservatore Romano, the Holy See’s official daily newspaper, has taken up arms against Bill Gates and Nestlé. In an editorial that attacks the two, titled “The risks of philanthropy”, the article defines Melinda Gates (pictured) as being “slightly off the mark and confused” as well as “misinformed”, reports Vatican Insider.
Melinda Gates has announced that over the next eight months she wants to spend 450 million Euros on research into new birth control methods, improved information on contraception and providing access in the planet’s poorest countries, primarily Africa, to such services and instruments.
Speaking to CNN, Mrs. Gates confided the difficulty she faced as a believer, aware that her initiative challenges the leaders of the Catholic Church.
In an attempt to erase the idea of the Catholic Church as a promoter of the deaths of women and children through an aversion to contraceptives, an interpretation it defines as “unfounded and cheap”, L’Osservatore Romano recalled that the Church “agrees with natural birth control methods, that is, with methods based on reading the signs and messages sent by the body.” [more]
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[...] on July 30, 2012 12:36 am cathnewsusa L’Osservatore Romano, the Holy See’s official daily newspaper, has taken up arms against Bill [...]
If I were an African woman, I would be wondering why so many Westerners are interested in my fertility and do not want me to have children.
The Church is enlightened by the largest “Think tank” ever assemble d includin thousands of Bishops (Most with Doctorate Degrees) and thosands o fmembers of Male and Female Religious Orders who run thousands of Hospitals and Universities.Mrs. Gates is pretty arrogant to believe the nerds in Silicon Valley are wiser.!!
Once again, insulting a woman who disagrees….calling her “confused.”
I say re artificial contraception that the church is wrong. Unfortunately it only admits error about 500 years after the fact.
Peace, Mary Bethany, my dear Protestant sister in Christ.
Please Jim, there are many of Protestant sisters who do not use artificial contraception and many who are part of the pro life movement – calling for an end to abortion.
Catholic Lady — true, but what makes Mary Bethany a Protestant is that, exactly like the Protestants, she sees fit to define her own dogma — just like Martin Luther and every Protestant thereafter.
Jim; Although the different Protestant Churches define their own dogma – their members are usually united and in agreement with their churches teachings and few would openly say as Mary Bethany said that the church’s teachings are wrong.
Actually if a Protestant learns that the Protestant Church is in error – they usually move on.
Good point, Catholic Lady — I’ve been encouraging many posters here to do exactly that — move on — so at least they can clearly see that they are not Catholic, and to quit fooling themselves into thinking they are.
But, Catholic Lady, Mary Bethany is still a Protestant — when Protestants leave one church and move on, sometimes they start a completely new church — this is why there are so many non-denominational churches today, and why the Protestants are so splintered. So, Mary Bethany’s disagreement does not make her non-Protestant — she is like any other Protestant who gravitates to the Church that is more to their liking.
You are correct Jim; the name “Protestant” came from the fact that these people were protesting.
The poor dear. Good thing she has us men to enlighten her.
This is great. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
What absolute hypocrisy. Just like the petulant children the Catholic hierarchy are, the Church will huff and puff and try to destroy the wonderful world around themselves so they can have their way, foretelling of doom and gloom if nobody listens to them. Thankfully, we have people here like Jim to drive out any non-believers as he apparently sees them from his church. What he doesn’t realize is that by driving them out, he makes them question their entire belief system, and some of them will come to the conclusion that Catholicism – *gasp* – can be dead wrong sometimes. And finally, like with Galileo, once a few hundred years have passed and it would just be downright silly to still believe certain things, the Catholic church will do a complete 180 degree spin on their stance on the subject, never admit that their beliefs were incorrect or that the church misled its followers or misread the tea leaves (Bible) in any way. Then it will try to rewrite history by saying that the church didn’t force anybody to do anything (as if that absolves them of any wrongdoing), which will draw a larger focus to the subject and to just how deeply the church was arrogantly, apologetically incorrect, until they will finally ignore the issue until the press has completed its news cycle and its followers don’t know what to believe and fall back into the comfortable fold of being told what to believe, what to think, and how much of their paycheck to give to people who work one day a week and yet manage to still live like kings.
If preventing God’s will is a sin, then the Catholic church should be against all medication, all technology, and all forms of science, because the express purpose of those things is to alter ourselves, our environment, and remove pain and suffering as much as humanly possible. In other words: to go against the natural order of things as much as possible so we can do more and better things with our short lives in this unbelievably beautiful Universe with the people we love. No, it’s the Catholic church that is confused here.
Tom — that is an anti-male comment, and I take exception to that.
I don’t think it was an anti-male comment, I think it was an anti-church hierarchy comment using the point that it is made completely of men to indicate that the hierarchy believe that they know better than the women who are standing up to them.
But that’s my interpretation.