Outreach to the Poor - The Catholic Inheritance of Princess Gloria
Summary
In this special Advent and Christmas edition of The John Henry Weston Show, we are joined by Princess Gloria of Bavaria, who is a pro-life Catholic and a champion of education and health care for the poor around the world.
Transcript
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Do you know how we're always told by the left, oh, those pro-lifers, they are just concerned
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And once that baby is born, they don't give it whatever.
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And to prove that, we're going to go to Princess Gloria, who we've been with this past little
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while, who's been so gracious, who shared with us a beautiful Christmas in Bavaria, the
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tradition of the faith in Bavaria, right in the face of all the bishops who seem to be
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One of the things that the left loves to accuse pro-lifers, and especially pro-life Catholics
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You don't care what happens after they're born.
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You don't care about people starving in the streets.
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It's nonsense that the people I know who love the poor the most are those who are faithful,
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who are also pro-life, but they're pro, you know, poverty and everything else.
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But when I learned about you and got to meet you many years ago now, I learned about what
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your family tradition has been doing for the poor for, is it a hundred years now?
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So if you can just explain that, I think it's so beautiful, but it also serves, especially
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nowadays, to show how false it is, this accusation against pro-lifers, against faithful Catholics,
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And it's ridiculous because if you go to the poor countries, the only ones who will really
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feed the poor and give them health care and schooling and food is the Catholic Church.
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And of course, we have to say also some evangelicals do very good charity work in the poor countries,
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But I don't see the George Soros people feeding children and giving money to Christian kindergartens.
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Now, after the First World War, we had a very, very terrible time because all the men were
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dead and a lot of widows with small children and very, very harsh winters because also the
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And that's when Prince Albert, the great-grandfather of my son Albert, started the soup kitchen for
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And unfortunately, there are still enough poor people today that we could never close
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So last year or two years ago, two years more, no, in 2018, we celebrated a hundred years of
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And the food is very good and it is cooked right there.
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There is a kitchen there and the room where they eat is the most beautiful and the most precious
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Because it is the baroque dining room, refectory, you call it, for the monks because St.
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Emaram, this place, was a monastery before, before Napoleon came and expropriated the church.
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And through this anti-Catholic action, a lot of priests lost their belongings.
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They were expropriated and sent to the streets.
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And the government remained with all this church property.
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And when the Tonotaxis family got expropriated, they had the business, which was the postal service
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And it was in Germany, they basically covered all the states and there were many states.
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And all the new kings formed by Napoleon, he gave them the title king because he needed
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So he basically said to Bavaria and to Württemberg and to Saxony, if you give me your men to fight
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And so princes, sovereign princes like my family or other families got expropriated by Napoleon.
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And then we got forced into a union that nobody wanted.
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I mean, from today, you could say maybe the union was good.
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But in those days, an expropriation is never nice.
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So because we lost the property and the church lost the property, when Tonotaxis lost the business
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of the postal service, the government just said, OK, we will give you this because it
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They gave the Tonotaxis to pay a remuneration for the postal service.
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They gave him Regensburg and also the forestry that comes with it.
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So that's how they ended up being landowners, where before they were entrepreneurs,
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they were running an operative business, postal service.
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And what is for you the motivation in terms of, well, you know that they're poor and you want
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to do it out of the goodness of your heart as well.
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But is there a spiritual motivation in it for you as well?
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Well, you have the seven Gaben der Barmherzigkeit.
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Yeah, the evangelical counsel, where you feed the poor, you go and visit the sick,
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you bury the dead, you counsel the ones that have need counseling.
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You visit the ones in prison, you help them to get free, which can also mean a religious
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teaching because some people are in the prison of their own wrong thoughts.
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So to free somebody can also mean it's not necessarily helping break out of jail, but help him break
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But that last aspect you were talking about, about freeing them from their own inner jail,
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Have you seen that as part of your service to the poor?
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Have you ever seen people come to faith or appreciation because of they recognizing what you're doing,
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That is very, very difficult to say because there is always multiple factors.
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For my personal input, I have two friends that have actually converted to Catholicism.
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But was that my influence or was it because I introduced them to very good priests and they came to the conclusion
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But of course, the aim is to, through your own life and through your example, that other people get attracted by Christianism.
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And we are more and more in the times, like in the Roman times, where paganism is around.
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And so, but some people, even in the Roman times, they admired the Christians because they said they are nice people.
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And that is one of the, the things with, with you particularly, you don't hide your Christianity.
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You don't hide your Catholicism, even though that can make it particularly awkward.
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One of the, for instance, you're, you're friends with Hillary Clinton.
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Are you, I don't know if you're able to share any of that, but what has it been like in those kinds of circles?
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Will you still make the sign of the cross or will you, you know?
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Well, first of all, you have to say that, especially Hillary Clinton and also her daughter and her family,
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They, they, they, they don't, they are not aware that they are, they favor something that is absolutely no go zone for a Christian.
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But you see, 95% of our lifetime, we spend with people that don't share the same religious views as we do,
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because we are in a, surrounded in a pagan and a very secular world.
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And so you also don't want to be too obnoxious and you don't want to be too pushy.
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I mean, I will always answer questions if I'm asked.
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And if the conversation evolves, I will use my arguments to persuade people why I believe
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and why I think it's the best religion there is.
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When you're dealing with people in other faiths or no faith at all, no faith is also a faith.
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If you don't believe in anything, you still believe in nothing.
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And nothing, you believe in nothing, but you believe in nothing.
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Sometimes it takes more faith to believe in nothing than it does to believe in the truth.
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And so finally, just a last word with regard to poverty and helping out the poor.
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Mother Teresa said when she came from India to America, she said, you know, in India, we are very poor.
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But here there's a greater poverty in that they are lacking faith in Jesus Christ.
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If you look at the small villages in the German-speaking world now, we have a lot of priests that come from Africa and India.
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And that's really amazing because, of course, we have been aborting our own children since 60 years.
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Of course, we don't have enough offspring to create priests.
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That's why we have to bring them in from the other countries.
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But that's a good thing because it shows them that the first world is in need.
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It has been so awesome to be with Princess Gloria, to be in Bavaria for that little stint while we were there.
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We wanted to bring you hopefully what we did, joyful and holy celebration of Christmas that you could enjoy and watch it being played out in a traditional fashion.
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And also to resurrect the image of Germany, which has been so tainted by the unfaithfulness of so many of their bishops.
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As you could see, there are still faithful and holy Catholics in Germany fighting for the faith.
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