Peter Darcy

Proclaiming Christ from the Mountaintops: The World's Tallest Christ Statues

Like me, you probably thought the statue in Rio was the largest image of Christ in the world. Also like me, you would be wrong – by a long shot.

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The Feisty Joan of Arc and Her Legacy

That feisty little French girl had humiliated the English a century before by breaking the back of England’s invasion of her country. Her leadership of the armies of France was the first time in a hundred years that the French had defeated the English in battle.

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Angels of the Resurrection and Their Dazzling Glory

Angels are filled with so much glory that encountering them is always an overwhelming experience for sinful human beings.

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Painting with Light and Disposing the Soul

Wonder is everywhere in the natural world. Often you don’t even have to look for it. You just have to receive it.

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Was the Star of Bethlehem Actually an Angel?

So, the conclusion must be that the Star of Bethlehem was actually a couple of bright planets in single file. Well, pardon me…but I’m not buying it.

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A Look into Heaven's Stained Glass Windows

Of all God’s creatures, only humans have the capacity to feel deeply the beauty of the created world and hope for something even loftier beyond the problems of daily life.

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Jeffrey Epstein's Soul, Prayer, Judgement, Mercy, and Hell

Famed Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel once quoted a saying from an ancient rabbinical text: the angels weep whenever a soul is condemned to Hell. Our Lord seemed to echo that angelic emotion with His agonized sweat in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night before He died.

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How Many Heisman Trophy Winners Has Abortion Killed?

Tim Tebow’s baseball career may have hit a wall this year due to suffering a broken bone in his hand, but he is still one of the most intriguing public figures in modern American life. He is not giving up, though. He never gives up on what is most important to him.

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Binding Trump

Readers may remember a curious piece of Trump Derangement trivia that hit the culture in the months following Donald Trump’s inauguration. Beginning with the waning moon in February, a bevy of witches vowed to cast a “binding spell” on President Trump with the intention of destroying his presidency.

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Hollywood and the Beasts of Revelation

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.

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Wonder Woman: Anti-Feminist Superhero

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 on its head.

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Angry Birds, Twisted Culture

It takes a lot to offend me nowadays, given the hard-skinned approach 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.

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New Week's Resolutions

My New Year’s resolution is to make no more New Year’s resolutions. I’m going to stick with “new week’s” resolutions from here on out. Why is that?

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Five Antidotes for Presumption

One of the most withering indictments our Lord meted out to the religious leaders of His day was a simple phrase that dismantled their exalted self-image. When presented with a legalistic challenge concerning the hypothetical case of a woman who had married seven husbands.

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Darth Vader and the Golden Rule

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 a dark alley.

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