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Most of us who were alive during the 1970s will instantly recognize the piano intro to the Carpenters’ massive pop hit “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The song goes on to sing the praises of the beloved and his many attributes. The song’s central aspiration is…
I was raised Catholic—the kind of Catholic who knew the smell of incense before the sound of morning cartoons. My father was (and still is) a farmer, my mother a care nurse tending to the elderly in their final days. We weren’t poor, but we were acquainted with struggle. So when Pope Leo recently declared…
I lost eight years’ worth of photos from a botched transfer when I got a new phone recently. I thought they were safe in the all-knowing cloud, but I guess I was sorely mistaken. I was able to salvage some by taking a picture of the picture before the old compromised phone was wiped clean;…
There has been much speculation and anticipation regarding the subject of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical. He recently released his first papal document, Dilexi Te, an apostolic exhortation begun by Pope Francis. Leo reportedly made some edits to the document and added some personal reflections, but he largely seemed to leave it intact, apparently wanting…
When I tell people I go to Christendom College, the reaction is almost always the same: a raised eyebrow, a polite smile, and then, “Wait, that super strict Catholic school?” Yep. That’s the one. To be honest, I kind of thought the same thing before I enrolled. I wasn’t raised Catholic. I’m a convert who…
Over the past decade, Canada has drifted from compelled speech into open flirtations with preemptive policing. What was once the realm of dystopian fiction, as described in Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report and Orwell’s 1984, is now lawmaking reality. Legislators use words such as “safety” and “security” to gaslight their citizens while providing the…
Hello! My name is Charles Coulombe and I am one of the contributing editors here at OnePeterFive. I am pleased to write to you from the vantage of my humble bedroom here in Vienna on this momentous day: the 114th marriage anniversary of Blessed Karl of Austria and his wife, Servant of God Zita. As…
Above: Napoleon’s invasion of Rome, 1798. On October 21, 1775, Giuseppe Baini, an important figure in 19th-century sacred music, was born. In 2025, we celebrate both the 500th anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s birth and the 250th anniversary of Baini’s, a fortuitous convergence, as Baini was Palestrina’s first biographer. As the first “Perpetual Maestro…
For those who cherish his life and memory, Blessed Charles of Austria conjures up a mixture of emotions. A cheerful devotee of the man will never fail to experience nostalgia for a Catholic empire long since passed and reminisce about the glorious achievements of Charles’s ancestors. However, a more honest observer cannot ignore the melancholy…
Author’s note: I am immensely grateful to Her Highness Archduchess Anna-Carolina von Habsburg-Lothringen for her translation of excerpts from Elizabeth Kovács’ biography of Blessed Karl, “Untergang oder Rettung der Donaumonarchie?” In October 2024, I was blessed to attend a conference entitled, “Blessed Karl of Austria: A Light for Our Times.” Among the impressive line-up of…
