It is Theology Thursday, and I am so pleased to be joined by my friend, the Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See in the Sovereign Order of Malta, Archduke, Edward Hapsburg.

Edward, thank you for being here.

Thank you for having me on the show.

Edward, your first book, you came on to discuss the Hapsburg Way. I thought it was an

absolutely marvelous book. I have multiple copies of it in my home library. That way I can

offer it to people if they come by, they can get a little bit of advice. And it was largely about

your family, the history of the Hapsburgs, and how the Habsburgs were able to become

an illustrious family and a flourishing family and a little bit of advice that maybe people

might be able to glean today. Your new book, Building a Wholesome Family in a Broken World,

which everyone should stop what they're doing, pull over, whatever you're

doing, go order it right now. It is superb building a wholesome family in a broken world.

It's a little bit more direct. It's a little less, there's some family biography in there,

autobiography in there too, but it is much blunter. It is, hey, guy, you know,

is reaching out, shaking people by the shoulders and saying, this is how you do it. You're confused.

You don't know what to do. It's a confusing time. Here is how you build a family. Because, as you

point out, the family is the little society. The family is the fundamental unit of politics.

So, Edward, what's your advice?

Well, first of all, in scriptwriting, I was a scriptwriter for a while.

They say, write what you know.

So I thought I'd write about what I know and what I knew for the last about 30 years

was family, lots of children and a happy, fulfilling marriage. And then I look around and I see

that this is not what happens everywhere. It's not exactly the normal way nowadays. Most people

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