An interview released this week between The Public Figure Formerly Known as Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the pair dwell on their alleged mistreatment at the hands of the Royal Family.
Speaking to Oprah, who has sold the rights to the interview for a hefty price of €6 million, the pair discuss how their marriage was not accepted by the Royals and how even racism played a role in how Meghan was shunned by the family.
Some have picked up on this ‘racism’ claim, which may or may not be true. But there is something far deeper at play, that is the dysfunctional relationship that this Royal Family has with marriage.
There is another theory, other than racism against Americans, that is not mere incidental or sociological, but which is more effective for analysing the Royals.
Father Chad Ripperger’s popular online videos have posited the idea of ‘Generational Spirits’ as explanations for the phenomenon of how sins can pass from generation to generation, offering riposte to those who solely rely upon referencing ‘learned’ behaviours as being responsible for the perpetuation of sins, without taking spiritual matters into account also.
A Monarch has a responsibility that is quite heavy compared to the rest of us, they have an oath to God Himself to uphold not just the faith of themselves but also of their people. When Henry VIII betrayed this oath, the throne of England was cursed with the long term dysfunction that came with breaking off from the one true faith. Although the relationship between the House of Windsor and the House of Tudor is complicated, they are related and they did sit on the same throne.
Fr. Ripperger defines generational spirits as thus:
Generational spirits are normally passed when one person commits some kind of grave sin, introducing the demon into the household
Prince Harry’s father, Prince Charles, exhibit the same dysfunctional marriage which has plagued the male heirs to the British Monarchy since Henry VIII, with extra marital affairs creating the sad story which ended with the death of Princess Diana in 1997. Meghan Markle is also a divorcee.
The fall of the House of Windsor was two fold, attacks from the devil because of their public profile and also the susceptibility to those attacks because of their aversion to those things which offer protection, the sacraments and sacramentals.
The passing of generational spirits is not just between parents and children but may occur when people are in close contact with each other for long periods of time, when they live or work around another person. The process is not mechanical in the sense that it is like an airborne virus that passes. Rather, the passing of generational spirits is a spiritual reality which occurs due to a variety of factors, including: the state of the soul of the one receiving the generational spirit (someone in the state of grace is less likely to be affected; someone in the state of mortal sin lacks protection); the relationship one has to the person (children under the authority of the parents are more susceptible); one’s spiritual life (the more one meditates, prays, receives the Sacraments regularly, especially Holy Communion and Confession, the less likely one will be affected); and one’s use of sacramentals (such as the Saint Benedict Medal, Scapular, or Holy Water, which provide some protection).
Father Ripperger then discusses how this can continue to pass on to further generations.
Generational spirits can stay with one person in a family and be passed on through subsequent generations, the fourth, fifth, or even further. The generational spirit can sometimes skip people within a generation and this is due to the fact that Christ determines every iota of a person’s spiritual battle and He can block the passing on of a generational spirit to a particular individual. Generational spirits can be blocked and removed from a family tree by members of the family reciting various prayers.
Henry VIII, some may not know, at one point had the title of ‘Defender of the Faith’ (given to him by the pope) for defending the celibacy of the priesthood from Martin Luther’s attacks upon it.
Unfortunately, he failed to fix his own sins and the devils attacks used him to corrupt millions of others since. Even now, marriage is the prime cause of strife in the Royal Family.
Aside from its effects upon marriage, would Henry VIII have started a new church had he known the suffering that it would cause to Catholics for centuries, if he’d known that England’s Cathedrals would be used as crazy golf centres, if he knew that his country would be culturally unrecognisable as one that was once Christian by the 21st century?
In his 1914 novel, The Flying Inn, GK Chesterton imagined a future Islamic England. Due to abortion, contraception and the widespread atheism of the native English population, the Muslim population of England now stands at 5%. 15% of London’s population is Muslim. It is clear that that England will be a Muslim country by the end of the century if current trends continue, which they most likely will since England is an atheistic country which is deep in political correctness with aversion to serious political debate. Wokeism is now seeming close to being designated as an official religion. By a strange turn of events, there are around 4 million Catholics in Britain now, though this has perhaps been artificially and temporarily boosted by migration from Poland and Eastern Europe.
The Church of England is, by most measures, a dying entity, with no public figures to make serious claims to having divine designation as we do in Catholicism through the papacy. That’s not to say that past Archbishops of Cantebury such as Rowan Williams haven’t had interesting things to say, or that there are not many Anglo Catholic clerics who are sincere. But it is to say that the new religions of Liberalism and Wokeism have infected the church deeply. At the recent canonisation of Cardinal Newman, there was a glimpse of a way forward for both the Church of England and for the Royal Family. Prince Charles looked a happy and enthusiastic figure in the presence of Pope Francis. Given the success of the Ordinariate established by Pope Benedict XVI, it would be an historic and healing move to see a future King Charles convert to Catholicism and bring the faithful over to the Ordinariate. The Royal Family needs it, the Church of England will benefit from it and it would be a fitting act of reparation for Henry VIII’s sins.
Perhaps some people think that this is fanciful thinking, but it is an Exorcist that the Royal Family needs, not a therapist.
It needs Cardinal Newman, not Oprah Winfrey.
