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A Prince Speaks: Otto von Habsburg on Europe

GAMING, AUSTRIA (11-28-05)– A small and slow moving city huddled in the Alps of Austria has become the host of a member of a dying breed, Crowned Prince Otto von Habsburg, one of the last real statesmen, as a local lawyer referred to him. Dr. von Habsburg on Monday visited the “Maria-Thron Kartause� in Gaming; the sole claim to fame of this isolated town.

The Kartause, dating back to 1333, housed over a hundred monks for several hundred years until Emperor Joseph II dissolved it because of his enlightenment ideals. The Monastery served for a while as storage space for woodcutters and briefly after World War II as a barracks for Russian soldiers. In has now been restored and acts as a campus for three educational institutions: The International Theological Institution, Ave Maria University, and the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

For many years now Dr. von Habsburg has visited every semester the Kartause to pay respects to an ancestor buried in the Monastery Church and to speak to students. This semester he spoke of Europe and the challenges which Europe faced.

“I would like to thank you again for that article you gave me concerning my Polish counterparts,� he began referring to an article which everyone had received. “It, however, painted a little to bleak a picture,� he noted.

With this His Royal Imperial Highness began painting a bleak but not hopeless picture of Europe. The enemy, he noted, has been well organized for a long time. “I’m not anti-clerical,� he still insisted even while taking exception to the attitude which blinded Catholic clergy and laity to the coming revolution.

Prince Otto von Habsburg, who last year attended the beatification of his father, the last Austrian Emperor, Charles I, is not ninety-three years old, but still energetic. During the course of the night he spoke of the systematic destruction of Catholic morality and tolerance of religion as well as the evils of Russia and the political hopes for Europe’s future.

Concerning Russia he maintained boldly “Stalin is not dead, his body died, but his mind lived on.� Describing the coup which put Putin in power, Dr. von Habsburg maintained that Putin is completely Stalinistic in thought. Put into his position by the KGB he had been a member of the KGB himself. Putin, says Dr. von Habsburg, has restored the gulags, and systematically taken over businesses within Russia. Last year, for example, it was the oil, earlier this year the shipping, and most recently the transportation. The former owners of the businesses have either escaped to England or Israel or been imprisoned. Putin has also imprisoned everyone who had previously financially supported democratic reform.

“We don’t read much about it in our newspapers,� His Highness affirmed. For example, “in his first public speech, which was only published in three or four of our newspapers, and no one read those anyway, Putin promised to double military spending by 2005. He’s done it.� Another thing, he says, that the newspapers have hardly reported (“only three or four lines�) is the 15% increase in military spending just this past year. When asked about the numbers of people in Russia who support these changes or serve in the military, Dr. von. Habsburg affirmed that it was a secret diligently kept by Russia, but not by the government, he says. The government is just a figurehead, it is a small commission which runs the government formed mostly of KGB agents.

On the European front the crowned prince was slightly more optimistic. While describing France as one of the most virulently anti-Catholic forces in the world today, he said that the most popular and youngest parliamentary agent, of whom he described himself as very fond and whom he said was likely to be Prime Minister within a few years, he described as a Catholic who wished to overturn to decision of 1905 against Catholic priests and Catholic institutions. He offered hope that France may once again begin funding Catholic schools and supporting religions projects. “This includes the Mohomedians,� he said, but he indicated that he didn’t believe that this was bad. “I would rather have a Mohomedian who believes in God than an Atheist,� he maintained.

While there are also members of Spain and of Austria which he said offered hope, the major hope he said he saw in Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Listing of several Eastern European countries which have reawakened a battle which the secular westerners had long thought over--a battle over homosexuality, women’s rights, and the death penalty--he also offered his opinion that Ukraine would soon join the European Union to the betterment to Europe. “It needs to happen and it will happen,� he said.

What should people do about the forces against the rich European tradition? Dr. von Habsburg suggested that what was needed was good politicians and especially good beaurocrats because, as he maintained, most of the decisions are already made by how the beaurocrats present the issue to the politicians. “Only two careers are worthwhile,� he said in answer to questions, “priests and politicians.� Although teaching is also an essential vocation, “other than those, nothing.� Both priests and politicians he listed as having a direct impact on both the spiritual and the temporal state of individuals and the country. So, when he gave his advice, he suggested that good Catholic youth should consider joining the lower level political positions where the major decisions were made.

Otto von Habsburg is the last crowned prince of Austria, but, because of the dissolution of the empire of his age it is unlikely that he will ever ascend the throne. He has been married for fifty years and has seven children and twenty-two grand-children, some of whom have also entered politics.
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[sursum fumis]

If monks like the Carthusians came back in force, the church would be a lot healthier. They haven't been immune to modernism though. Who has?They don't have many vocations, if any at all that last, and who really knows what they're up to?
Their Charterhouse in the U.S.A. typifies the poisonous effects
of modernism. It looks like an awful gulag compared with the older
Charterhouses in Europe. It's all grey, synthetic and grave like soviet architecture. It is out of the realm of traditional Christian austerity. One thinks they forgot about giving glory to God, that is worthy of Him, in
all the twentieth century cement. It's almost enough to inspire another conspiracy theory.
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[royalcello]

Thanks for posting this. Where did you find it?

[totustuusmaria]

[nadieimportante]

Russia can annihilate Europe and the USA in 10 minutes.

The powers that be, the New World Order, wants us to believe that the Moslems are the Elephant, and Russia has collapsed and become a mosquito. The reality is that the USA is like a lion, while Russia is the Elephant, and the Moslem terrorists are the mosquito.

Terrorists that can't even defeat the Israeli Police, are a "threat to Global security", and Russia has collapsed? A sucker is born every minute.

[Robert Drobot]

[respighi]

[Selous]

nadieimportante

[nadieimportante]

[FranzJosf]

Thank you for posting this. As you may be able to tell from my name, I am grateful for the Catholic Hapsburg dynasty; indeed, my ancestors were their subjects.

As for the horrible architecture that is the only Charterhouse in the U.S. (just outside Manchester, Vermont), I must tell you how I discovered it. The monks own Mount Equinox. I took some students to the summit. As we looked down into the valley, a student asked, "What are those buildings down there?" Another student answered, "It looks like a prison, it's probably a prison or mental institution." Later I found out that the 'prison' is the monastery. I couldn't believe it.
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[Selous]

nadieimportante

[nadieimportante]

Selous wrote:
"the current administration - and other western nations- continue to dig their own graves by funding Islamic Jihad by way of petrodollars"

nadieimportante responds:
not just the current administration ALL administrations since before WWI have funded their future enemies. China is our next adversary see http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i25htWesterman_FinancingDestruction.html

Compared to Russia and China, the Moslem terrorists are mosquitoes.

[Torquemada]

I have actually been inside and visited the Charterhouse in Vermont.

They appear to be living the authentic Carthusian rule and vocation; however, it's impossible to say for certain because the monks spend much of their time in their own cells.

The problem is the theology. They seem to be quite modernist in their thinking.