Thanks to a correspondent for news of the principled stand of Prince Alois of Lichtenstein. As I reported last September, the Crown Prince made it clear that he would use his powers to veto the proposed legalisation of abortion. He now faces a campaign by his opponents to take away his power of veto. The Prince has said that if this campaign succeeds, his family will withdraw from political life.
The Prince enjoys massive support in the small principality but opposition from the Council of Europe. It will be interesting to see whether "Europe" can impose its own ideas of democracy on a small country whose people prefer to live under a benign monarchy (and one that supports Christian values.)
3 comments:
Father Tim,
this is not the first time a Prince of Lichtenstein resists pressure from foreign powers.
At the end of the second World War, Lichtenstein gave refuge to the men of the 1st Russian National Army, who had fought alongside the germans, and whom Stalin wanted extradicted to the Soviet Union. The soviet pressure was successfully resisted by the Prince and his country (remember the soviet tanks were in Austria at the time).
The episode is depicted in the 1993 movie "Vent d'Est", starring Malcolm McDowell, as General Boris
Smyslovsky.
Vent d'Est
Boris Smyslovsky
Regards,
Javier
Argentina
May God guide Prince Alois and his Liechtenstein Principality in their principled stand against abortion.
A piece of trivia. This man's 15 year old son is the male heir to the Jacobite claim on the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
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