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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“A clergyman should talk truth and issues but avoid politics.”
In my mind, “issues” are politics. For example, abortion is an issue.
I think church leaders ought to speak out and warn the congregants that voting for an abortion-promoting politician means they will have blood on their hands. And drawing attention to the fact that certain politicians have no fear of openly supporting abortion, homosexual “marriage” and adoption deserves to be addressed.
“Saying that Trump is dangerous is a statement that is 100% political.”
Well, he is dangerous... to liberals, RINOs, ISIS, and nuclear-bomb-possessing tyrannical regimes.
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