The Subtle Art of Letting Go

Christopher Heffron February 19, 2018

Letting go of things isn’t formidable. It’s freeing.

St. Josephine Bakhita is represented in this statue by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz in this photo released by the Holy See Press Office Feb. 3, 2022. St. Bakhita, who was sold into slavery as a child, is the patron saint of the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, which is marked on her Feb. 8 feast day. (CNS photo/courtesy Holy See Press Office)

St. Josephine Bakhita—A Model of Faith

Christopher Heffron January 22, 2018

Her kidnappers gave her the name Bakhita, meaning “fortunate. ” Her life in captivity wasn’t quite so. Born in Darfur in 1869, Josephine Bakhita was taken by Arab slave traders when she was 9.

Channel Surfing: Good Bones

Christopher Heffron July 24, 2017

The formula is tried and true: mother and daughter size up Indianapolis properties in various stages of disrepair and collectively work to reimagine the space.

Violent Video Games: Play at Your Own Risk

Christopher Heffron June 24, 2010

The most unsettling feature of violent video games is that they allow the player, regardless of age, to become the main character of the games—vicious, brutal tendencies and all.

Catholic pro-life activists pray Feb. 11, 2023, outside of Bread and Roses Woman's Health Center, a Clearwater, Fla., clinic that provides abortions. A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Jan. 16, 2025, identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty. (OSV News photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters)

Murder Is Not Pro-Life

Christopher Heffron September 24, 2009

George Tiller, a medical doctor and one of only a handful of physicians in the country who performed late-term abortions, was one of the most reviled figures by anti-abortion activists.