Charles A. Coulombe is a contributing editor for OnePeterFive. He is the author of many books, most recently Blessed Charles of Austria: a Holy Emperor and His Legacy, as well as Puritan’s Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History, Vicars of Christ: a History of the Popes, with A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail. His writings have appeared at the Catholic Herald, Crisis, The European Conservative and he also has his own podcast with Mr. Vincent Frankini.
Author: Charles A. Coulombe
Ukraine and the Casualty of Truth
Above: Potocki Mausoleum Chapel in Pechera, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Public Domain. AGAINST TWO EVILS The death of Elizabeth II and accession of Charles III have pushed the Ukrainian War off the front page – as indeed that conflict has done for …
Hyperpapalism and the Body Politic
We are at very curious time in ecclesiastical history. On the one hand, the shaky ecclesiology of the Orthodox Churches, already shaken further when Constantinople and Moscow excommunicated each other over the status of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, has received another blow …
The Emperor of the Church and the Worldwide Devotion to Blessed Karl
Photo: Emperor Karl visiting the residents of Cortina D’Ampezzo, c. 1917. He was known by all during the war (especially his troops) to visit and comfort his people in their suffering. Editor’s note: as we announced a few weeks ago …
Trad Response to “A Manifesto of the New Traditionalism”
On December 22, 2021, a manifesto appeared online which is worth engaging with seriously. Entitled A Manifesto of the New Traditionalism (MNT), it was signed initially and subsequently by some very reputable Catholic scholars; it is worth reading in its …
Santa Claus: Evil Elf or Holy Trad?
Once again the Christmas war is getting ready to break out. By that I do not mean the perennial struggle over Holiday versus Christmas which annually afflicts the entire body politic (at least in the United States), but a conflict …
Make Halloween Catholic Again
It is once again that time of year that the late Ray Bradbury famously dubbed “the October Country.” The waning of the year brings to more temperate regions the closure of harvest, the falling leaves, and the preparation for the …
What is Christendom?
As I write these words on September 18, 2021, it is 60 years to the day that the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash en route to a peace conference intended to end what …