Charles A. Coulombe

For the 18th century French physicist, see Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Charles A. Coulombe (born 8 November 1960) is a prominent American Catholic historian, author, journalist, lecturer, and occasional researcher into the supernatural.

Life

Born in New York City, Coulombe moved with his parents and older brother 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. To date, the book has sold well in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.^{[citation needed]} In 1990, some of his poetry was published in The White Cockade. Coulombe's work has appeared in more than 20 journals,^{[citation needed]} including regular columns in Fidelity of Australia, PRAG of London, Monarchy Canada, and Creole of Louisiana.^{[citation needed]} 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.

Coulombe serves as Western U.S. Delegate of the Grand Council of the U.K.-based Monarchist League, and is a member of both the Catholic Writer's Guild of Great Britain (the Keys) and the Royal Stuart Society. 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, Edward D. Wood, Jr. In February 2011, Coulombe will travel Oxford University to debate at the Oxford Union in defence of Monarchy.

Coulombe's latest book is The Pope's Legion. This is a detailed history of the Papal Zouaves the international volunteer force who fought in defence of the Papal states under Pope Pius IX.

Positions

• Platonic Realist
• Monarchist
• Catholicism
• quote from the Takimag article "Learning to Love the French":

My mother’s heritage made me sympathetic to Austria and the greater Germanic Catholic world as well. In time, what united the world’s various Catholic (and in truth, as I would discover, Orthodox as well) cultures was far greater than what divided them.

Bibliography

Incomplete - to be updated

Articles

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

External links

• Charles A. Coulombe on TUMBLAR HOUSE
• "Literature of Wonder" Coulombe on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction from a Catholic literary viewpoint
• books on Amazon, p. 1
• p. 2
• Learning to Love the French, article on Takimag - see left margin for his other essays there

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