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Trump is More Dangerous than Kim Jong Un, Says Former Head of Benedictines
La Croix ^ | 11/9/17 | Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

Posted on 11/11/2017 7:57:45 PM PST by marshmallow

The US president should stop making threats and start negotiating with North Korea’s strongman, says Abbot Primate-emeritus Notker Wolf.

Abbot Notker Wolf, the former representative head of all Benedictine monks and nuns throughout the world, has called on US President Donald Trump to stop making ominous threats against Communist North Korea and meet its leader Kim Jong Un “on an equal footing”.

“I know from personal experience that one can negotiate with the North Koreans,” the abbot said in a November 4th interview with the German Catholic press agency KNA.

Wolf, who headed the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien in Bavaria for twenty-three years prior to serving sixteen more (2000-2016) as the Rome-based Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation, has made more than ten extended...

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To: bagster

This guy is a beaurocrat.....

They always want more staff meetings.ha


21 posted on 11/11/2017 8:38:36 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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To: marshmallow

Yes, he is way more dangerous than ANYONE...to the deep state, that is, and that includes the Vatican, I’m sorry to say, because I am Catholic.


22 posted on 11/11/2017 8:41:58 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: marshmallow
Have another swig, padre.

23 posted on 11/11/2017 8:48:15 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: marshmallow

Wolves in sheep’s clothing like the appropriately-named Notker Wolf are the most dangerous of all.


24 posted on 11/11/2017 9:11:14 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Gay State Conservative

Flick Du!


25 posted on 11/11/2017 9:11:31 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: marshmallow

Trump more dangerous than Kim?

I hope so. He’s got a lot more nukes.


26 posted on 11/11/2017 10:15:21 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: marshmallow

He is named appropriately. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.


27 posted on 11/11/2017 10:19:07 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: marshmallow

Is that the Abbot of Abbott and Costello, or is that the Abbot of The Name of the Rose?


28 posted on 11/11/2017 10:33:37 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: DariusBane

They need to stay in their lane. Getting fed up with their rhetoric.


29 posted on 11/11/2017 11:04:43 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: NFHale; Gay State Conservative
“...go fornicate yourself in German..”

I believe it’s “Fick dich selbst”.

That's grammatically possible, but no one actually says that.

The more common expression is "Fick' dich in den Arsch!"

Regards,

30 posted on 11/11/2017 11:19:56 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: marshmallow
Yeah, sure Abbot....Trump STARVES MILLIONS of his people now, doesn't he??

Oh, and he MURDERED his foes, right, Abbot?

And he has imprisoned THOUSANDS that don't worship him....yeah. Abbott......you need to go to Confession!

31 posted on 11/12/2017 2:45:00 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: marshmallow

The “Look at me! I’m Holy!” types are some of the most stupid God ever created....


32 posted on 11/12/2017 4:00:16 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Eddie01

I believe many churches are doing “Good Works” for the UN.
My church, I recently discovered is all in with Lutheran Social Services (currently UpBring), a big contractor for platforming “refugees”...and if that’s not enough they simply adopted the educational curriculum of Common Core as they begin opening bogus “Christian” Academies. I’m wondering if the slowdown on refugees under Trump caused them to shift their capitol into education.


33 posted on 11/12/2017 6:26:09 AM PST by magna carta
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To: alexander_busek

Danke, mein herr... ich bin die schuler, du bist die Lehrer...


34 posted on 11/12/2017 7:28:50 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: marshmallow

They want to get involved in politics? We should tax the churches that do.


35 posted on 11/12/2017 7:42:26 AM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: NFHale
Danke, mein herr... ich bin die schuler, du bist die Lehrer...

Der Schüler... der Lehrer.

Herzlichst

36 posted on 11/12/2017 10:40:14 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Mears

“The clergy should stay OUT of politics.”

Clergymen have just as much right to express their opinions as anyone else. In fact, back before people got most of their news of current events from the media, it was the church preacher who often kept the community informed.

There was also a time in this nation when the average citizen was more well-versed in the Bible than many of today’s social-Gospel clergymen.

That being said, many people I know who do Christian ministry seem to avoid politics because they do not want to hinder their ability to reach people with the Gospel.

For me, I think it is important to advocate for truth regardless of whether the topic is religious, political, educational, scientific, or otherwise.


37 posted on 11/12/2017 5:18:18 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: alexander_busek

Sincerely!!!!

:^)


38 posted on 11/12/2017 5:31:34 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: unlearner

I’m afraid I have to disagree.

A clergyman should talk truth and issues but avoid politics.

Saying that Trump is dangerous is a statement that is 100% political.

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39 posted on 11/12/2017 5:45:35 PM PST by Mears
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To: DariusBane

Tax the Church!


40 posted on 11/12/2017 5:46:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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