Culture – Page 2 – Peter Darcy

The Virgin Mary and the Pro-Life Movement

By Peter Darcy|2018-08-05T22:45:05+00:00August 5th, 2018|Culture, Motivation, Our Lady|

The Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary always reminds me of Pope John Paul II’s visit to World Youth Day in Denver in the summer of 1993. The culmination of the event was an outdoor Mass with 400,000 kids in Cherry Creek State Park. Because of the dry heat that day, it felt like we [...]

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Broken Harp: The Deadly Abortion Deal in Ireland

By Peter Darcy|2018-07-01T22:51:54+00:00July 1st, 2018|Culture, Motivation|

Ireland has always been known as a place of enchantment, particularly in its poetry, music, and dance. As if to remind us of this, the Emerald Isle itself is even shaped like a harp! But to adopt the metaphor of Don McLean’s classic song, American Pie, May 25 was “the day the music died” in [...]

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The Blasphemy All Around Us

By Peter Darcy|2018-01-10T11:46:59+00:00January 10th, 2018|Christ, Culture|

Casual swearing. Routine profanity. Mainstreamed irreverence. These curses of our age don’t seem to shock us like they used to. Ever since Rhett Butler first uttered the “D” word in Gone with the Wind in 1939, the entertainment industry has gone from bad to worse in its moral offensiveness. Every modern venue of entertainment, from [...]

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Hollywood and the Beasts of Revelation

By Peter Darcy|2017-11-17T22:16:19+00:00November 17th, 2017|Culture, Motivation, Recent|

Hollywood has dished up some horrific monsters in the past hundred years. You can name them as easily as I can: Godzilla, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Alien, Frankenstein, Harvey Weinstein, etc. All but the latter were creations of someone’s fertile imagination. Hollywood’s fictitious monsters may be occasions of entertainment or catharsis for us, [...]

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Wonder Woman: Anti-Feminist Superhero

By Peter Darcy|2017-06-20T22:28:12+00:00June 20th, 2017|Culture, Recent|

Please. No one tell Betty Friedan that a Greek goddess just smashed her feminist mystique. The Greek goddess in question is Diana, Princess of Themyscira, Daughter of Hyppolita, otherwise known as Wonder Woman. Technically Diana is a demigoddess, but this article isn’t about technicalities, it’s about a marvelous story that turns modern feminist doctrine [...]

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Angry Birds, Twisted Culture

By Peter Darcy|2016-05-21T01:12:49+00:00May 21st, 2016|Culture, Motivation|

It takes a lot to offend me nowadays, given the thick-skinned attitude toward movies that we all must, of necessity, develop as media consumers. However, I became an angry bird myself while watching the eponymous movie on its opening weekend. Like any kid movie, Angry Birds contains the expected inane humor suited to an adolescent [...]

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Notre Dame’s Moral Equivalency Award

By Peter Darcy|2016-05-18T01:06:02+00:00May 18th, 2016|Culture, Motivation|

By Thomas J. McKenna Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame… What though the odds be great or small Old Notre Dame will win over all While her loyal sons are marching Onward to…moral equivalency and rampant degradation of Catholic teaching. The famed “Notre Dame Fight Song” is supposed to end with the rousing phrase, “Onward [...]

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Disney’s Feminist Drivel

By Peter Darcy|2015-12-26T00:59:07+00:00December 26th, 2015|Culture|

I realize the new Star Wars film is all the rage at this moment, and perhaps it’s heretical to speak against it, but I saw it this week and didn’t like it for what I will admit is one very snarky reason: Disney’s long-established pattern of feminist drivel. We don’t need another billion-dollar blockbuster from [...]

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The Man Who Stepped Out of Line

By Peter Darcy|2015-08-14T19:50:26+00:00August 14th, 2015|Culture, Inspiration|

In this post-feminist age where men are still learning remedial masculinity, we have a model of heroic manhood which we would do well to emulate. In the early twentieth century Poland gave us that manly priest, John Paul II, but also his hero, Maximilian Kolbe, priest, missionary, spiritual father and martyr of brotherly love. St. [...]

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Darth Vader and the Golden Rule

By Peter Darcy|2015-01-24T00:49:32+00:00January 24th, 2015|Culture, Motivation|

Thanks to the Star Wars phenomenon that swept the world in the seventies, Darth Vader is arguably the world’s most recognizable villain. He symbolizes everything we fear about scoundrels: he’s warped, he’s cruel, he speaks in a breathy, creepy bass voice, and he’s relentlessly evil. Not the kind of guy you want to meet in [...]

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