Julia Roberts' quest for spiritual enlightenment in 'Eat Pray Love' comes across as unremittingly self-centered.

Sue Krentz is a conflicted woman, coping with the complicated reality of life near the Mexican border.

Clerical sexual abuse has provoked repugnance throughout the church, said a recently appointed Vatican official.

A new U.S. initiative seeks to make some amends for the widespread use of defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam.

One passenger was killed, the other seriously injured when the car crashed in California.

“All art worthy of the name,” Henri Matisse once said, “is religious.”

“The exclusion of girls...has always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within Catholic education,” the official Vatican newspaper said.

The U.S. Knights of Columbus are partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to make prosthetic limbs available to Haitian children injured during the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran encouraged Catholics and Muslims to work together in overcoming violence among followers of different religions

The relation of the Christ of faith to the Jesus of history is a topic fraught with controversy in theological circles. It also has implications for the way Christian believers understand and practice their faith. We invited Luke Timothy Johnson to reflect on the topic and state his own position, which he did in “The Jesus Controversy,” published in America on Aug. 2. We have asked two biblical scholars with different views, one a Catholic, the other a Protestant, to respond to Professor Johnson’s article. The three articles together give an indication of the scope of current thinking by mainstream scholars. All three articles appear online, where readers can add their own insights, experience and viewpoints. —The Editors

Following the Troubadours

How the historical Jesus tests—and strengthens—our faith

Bernard Brandon Scott