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Dec 22, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Charles A. Coulombe
He [Charlemagne] at first had such an aversion to being granted the imperial title that he declared that he would not have set foot in the Church the day that these imperial titles were conferred, although it was a great feast-day, if he could have foreseen the design of the Pope. —Einhard, Vita Karoli. Christmas is almost upon us.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Charles A. Coulombe
King Arthur lay at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide, with many a gallant lord and lovely lady…then they brought the first course, with the blast of trumpets and the waving of banners, with the sound of drums and pipes, so that many a heart was uplifted at the melody. Costly and most delicious foods were carried in. Many were the dainties, delicacies and fresh meats, so great was the plenty they might scarce find room on the board and table-cloth to set all the silver dishes.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Charles A. Coulombe
The descendants of those Europe sent to the West who have led the broad stream of emigration are now foreign to us even though flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood. It is not the big water that separates the citizens of the Union from us but the nature of the country has produced the difference. She has assimilated her conquerors, equipped them with all the advantages and disadvantages that are her own.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Charles A. Coulombe
The Christian People (in which both prince and beggar are equally subjects) is superior to every other, in intellectual and moral worth. It carries civilisation with it wheresoever it goes, for it carries with it the true notion of God and of the supernatural end of man. Barbarism recedes; pagan institutions, how ancient soever they may be, are forced to give way. Even Greece and Rome laid down their own to adopt the laws of the Christian Code—the Code which was based on the Gospel.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Charles A. Coulombe
There, in Kakania, that state since vanished that no one understood, in many ways an exemplary state, though unappreciated, there was a tempo too, but not too much tempo.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | Charles A. Coulombe
The Marriage of Blessed Karl and Princess Zita By Charles A. CoulombeOnePeterFive Editor’s note: today is the feast day of our patron, Blessed Emperor Karl. When Pope St. John Paul II beatified Emperor Karl (Karol Wojtyła’s own namesake, in fact), he chose October 21st as his feast day, which is the anniversary of Karl and Zita’s wedding. Here we publish an excerpt from the biography written by our contributing editor, Charles Coulombe, with the kind permission from TAN Books.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Charles A. Coulombe
Having lived in Austria for seven years, I have perhaps a keener appreciation of my native land than ever before, much as I have come to love the lands of the Habsburg monarchy. Another presidential election looms ever closer, with perhaps the bitterest atmosphere of any in my 63 years of experience. Whatever the result, it shall undoubtedly continue the process of national division and outright hatred that has become the hallmark of our life as a country.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Charles A. Coulombe
We live in astonishing times. Although ever since we collectively dropped down the COVID rabbit hole in 2020, evil, insanity, and stupidity have seemed to dominate the leadership of most countries, in varying proportions according to the given nation. One hardly knows where to begin. Sir Keir Starmer and his two-tier policing cum attempts at Orwellian thought control? Macron and his all-party Union Desacree against the nefarious Mlle. Le Pen?
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Charles A. Coulombe
From ghoulies and ghosties. And long-leggedy beasties. And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!—Traditional Scottish PrayerAlthough the end of October is a long way away, the first Halloween items have crept into retail stores here in Southern California. Of course, what most Europeans see in Halloween is yet another American importation—and one of ghoulish or even Satanic orientation at that.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
europeanconservative.com | Charles A. Coulombe
This writer, in these pages; on other websites; and in publications, podcasts, and lectures, has time and again thundered on about the greatness of Europe’s faith, monarchies, and cultures. He has praised the empires that brought these across the oceans to the four quarters of the earth. Correspondingly, he has attacked with all his might in these venues those who denigrate them—most recently those strange folk called the Woke, with their attendant Antifa and BLM minions.
