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The Boulder Abortion Clinic has closed after more than 50 years, as founder and physician Warren Hern announced his retirement in a post on the clinic's website.

This talk at the Harvard Catholic Forum on April 4 highlights the rich and bidirectional relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament, showing how the saving truth of Holy Scripture is revealed as the foundation on which humanity can fully know itself.

When Pope Francis was the archbishop of Buenos Aires, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he surprised many by living a humble life. In his famous picture from 2008, he is seen riding the city's subway rather than taking a driver and a car. EWTN's Colm Flynn tracked down the young man sitting next to him, to hear his story...

Within hours of Pope Francis’ death Easter Monday, President Donald Trump told the world that he plans to attend his funeral.“Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!” the president said on Truth Social.But not so many popes ago, such an announcement by an American president would have been unthinkable. For most of its history, the U.S. government sent no one to the funeral of the bishop of Rome.

“The next pope,” Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio told his brother cardinals in their 2013 General Congregation meetings six days before they would elect him the 266th Peter, had to be a “man who, from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the Church to go out of herself to the existential peripheries, who helps her to be a fruitful mother living off the sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing.”

“Conclave” was a surprise hit upon its theatrical release last October. And following the April 21 death of Pope Francis, the film, now on streaming platforms, has attracted a new wave of interest from viewers, with streaming rates of the film reportedly tripling in the days since the pope’s death was announced. Directed by Edward Berger and based on a 2016 novel, the film is a character-driven story...

Jesus came, ultimately, not just to live for 33 years in one region. He came to live forever, everywhere. This Sunday, the Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy, the Church emphasizes that Jesus Christ is still alive — and why. The cross was at the center of Jesus’ life — before and after the crucifixion. We know from John 3:16 why Jesus came...

Paradoxical and incomplete: The pontificate of Pope Francis can be summed up in these two words. Only time will tell whether his leadership has given a permanent new direction to the Church; whether its mentality changed fundamentally under his leadership, or whether Francis was the only revolutionary; whether people were meaningfully implementing the changes he wrought, or simply waiting for everything to pass around him.