‘The Habsburg Way’: Lessons for Today, From Openness to Life to How to Die Well, by Edward Pentin

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Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen is Hungary’s current ambassador to the Holy See. (photo: Edward Pentin )

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News,

Edward Pentin Edward Pentin is the Register’s Senior Contributor and EWTN News Vatican Analyst. He began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register.

 

New book outlines seven monarchial principles rooted in Catholic living.

Edward PentinROME — The Catholic faith and traditions of the Habsburg monarchies helped them enjoy mostly stable marriages and large, happy families that were crucial in governing their kingdoms for more than eight centuries.

Now, some of those principles they lived — and died — by have been recorded in a book by Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, a direct descendent of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916), an archduke of Austria, and Hungary’s current ambassador to the Holy See.

In this April 18 interview with the Register in Rome on the day the Italian edition of his book The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times was launched, Habsburg discusses these and other principles that he believes all people can learn from in this troubled age when marriage and the family are especially under attack. …