‘Run So As to Win’
Christopher Heffron
July 26, 2024
While collegiate and professional sports are big business in this country, the Olympics feel like a purer celebration of sport somehow.
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Christopher Heffron
Christopher Heffron is the editorial director at Franciscan Media.
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Christopher Heffron
June 25, 2024
The Olympics shouldn’t be political. On the contrary: The games are a distraction from it.
Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
Christopher Heffron
June 25, 2024
Journalist, historian, and host Garrett Graff has made our country’s gun fixation the focus of the third season of his celebrated podcast, Long Shadow.
St. Joseph, Model for Fathers
Christopher Heffron
June 16, 2024
Share today’s prayer with a father who emulates the same characteristics as St. Joseph. A prayerful word of thanks is sometimes the best present.
‘Peace to This House’
Christopher Heffron
May 24, 2024
Francis of Assisi had rather specific instructions for how his brothers should go about their lives.
I’d Like to Say: We Need to Stop ‘Othering’
Christopher Heffron
May 24, 2024
The time-honored practice of othering those who differ from us is eating away at our Christian call to love one another.
Saint Anthony Is Second to Nobody
Christopher Heffron
May 24, 2024
Saint Anthony often plays for second with his brother, Saint Francis. But we love them both equally.