Charles A. Coulombe

Charles A. Coulombe (born 8 November 1960) is an American Catholic author and lecturer.

Life

Born in New York City, Coulombe moved with his parents and older brother Andre to Hollywood, California at age 6. A product of L.A.'s parochial schools, he attended college at New Mexico Military Institute and California State University, Northridge, majoring in political Science.

After spending three years as a stand-up comic on the Sunset Strip, Coulombe authored his first book, Everyman Today Call Rome, a look at the Catholic Church in America from an under-30 viewpoint. In 1990, some of his poetry was published in The White Cockade. Coulombe's work has appeared in more than 20 journals, including regular columns in Fidelity of Australia, PRAG of London, Monarchy Canada, and Creole of Louisiana.^[1] A contributing editor and regular movie reviewer to the National Catholic Register, he has also been a frequent contributor to such publications as Success, Catholic Twin Circle, Gnosis, FATE and New Oxford Review.

Lecturing on a wide variety of religious, political, historical, and literary topics has taken him throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In August 1992, he spoke at Oxford University, England. In October 1993 he embarked on a lecture tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. The following year he returned to the latter two nations, and in 1995 spoke at Oxford and Cambridge. Coulombe has lectured repeatedly at the University of Southern California on the history of rock and roll, and at Cleveland's John Carroll University on medieval monarchy. He has acted as a media consultant on all things Catholic, especially the history of the Papacy. Alongside William L. Biersach, Coulombe regularly lectures at St. Therese's Church in Alhambra, California on various topics regarding the Catholic Faith.^[2]

Coulombe serves as Western U.S. Delegate of the Grand Council of the U.K.-based International Monarchist League, and is a member of both the Catholic Writer's Guild of Great Britain (the Keys) and the Royal Stuart Society.^[3] Mr. Coulombe is also a founding board member of the Los Angeles-based Queen of Angels Foundation, a Roman Catholic devotional society.^[4] As a child, he lived with his parents in a house owned by the TV psychic known as The Amazing Criswell, through whom he met the now-famous film-maker, Ed Wood.^[5]

Coulombe is a registered members of the Constitution Party.^[6]

Positions

• Platonic Realism
• monarchism
• Catholicism
• paleoconservatism

Quotes

[W]hat is certain is that the ruins and traces of the Holy Empire are all about us. An understanding of its history and continuing influence is key to understanding the practical implications of the Social Kingship of Christ — which idea, in so many ways, is the ideal successive Emperors and their loyal subjects sought to follow on Earth, and without which, as Pius XI teach[es] in Quas primas, real peace is impossible. Whether or not the Great Monarch returns in our day (and I for one would be happy to see him), it would be good to know upon what basis such a Sovereign would rule; if nothing else, it shall show us what we ought to be able to expect of our rulers — and how far short they usually fall.

— "Sacrum Imperium", 2014^[7]

I would rather be ruled by people who think they're gonna fry in Hell forever if they rule me poorly, than by people for whom I'm merely a convenient economic siphon who can be milked like a cow.

— interview with Stephen Heiner, 2010^[8][9]

The 4th of July might inspire us to wear black armbands and bone up on our League of the South or United Empire Loyalist or Sinarquista or Societe Saint Jean Baptiste literature, or else mindlessly chant in unison the praises of infanticidal freedom as the true spirit of ’76. But a far better response would be to enjoy the picnics, concerts, parades, and fireworks; deepen our knowledge of national, state (both parks and historical societies), and local history; and ponder how we, as individuals, can best evangelise our own corner of the country that we ought to love because God has seen fit to place us here.

— "The Perfect Versus the Good", 2014^[10]

The judiciary have, in a very real sense, made themselves the source of authority; thus for many of us, whatever is legal is moral.

— "The Rulers and the Ruled", 2016^[11]

Bibliography

Books

• Rum: The Epic Story of the Drink That Conquered the World, Citadel, 2004. ISBN 0806525819
• Everyman Today Call Rome, Tumblar House, 2011. ISBN 0984236562
• Puritan's Empire, Tumblar House, 2008. ISBN 0979160057
• Desire & Deception, Tumblar House, 2009. ISBN 0984236511
• Vicars of Christ, Tumblar House, 2014. ISBN 0988353725
• Haunted Castles of the World, Lyons Press, 2005. ISBN 1592285341
• Haunted Places in America, Lyons Press, 2004. ISBN 1592284159
• The White Cockade: Catholic Poetry and Verse, Tumblar House, 2009. ISBN 0984236503
• The Pope's Legion, St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. ISBN 0230617565
• Star-Spangled Crown, Tumblar House, 2016. ISBN 1944339051

Articles

• Coulombe, Charles A. (Winter–Spring 2006). "Rum, Romanism, and rebellion ... enumerated, explained, extolled". Catholic Men's Quarterly. 2 (4): 8–13. 

References

External links

• Charles A. Coulombe official page at McAlister Arts
• Charles A. Coulombe on Tumblar House