In the south of Italy, Matera is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of “The Chosen,” it ...

The drama of Holy Week is about to be shared on the small screen in the fifth season of Prime Video's The Chosen ...

Elaine Pagels, one of the leading scholars of Gnostic texts, believes that Mary Magdalene came to exemplify the tensions between the early Church and Gnostic Christians. In many Gnostic groups ...

More likely, she surmised, “Magdala” was a reference to the Aramaic word for “tower,” as in Mary Magdalene was a tower in the Church, much as the apostle Peter is referred to as the rock.

Even if I’m generally skeptical, I don’t deny that the church may be onto something when it makes such a link. But there’s clearly a tension between the swoon of Mary Magdalene’s spiritual ...

This is British artist Harold Copping’s depiction of the grieving Mary Magdalene as she is about ... pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Odessa. “He gave her the task of ...

Barring some miraculous revelation, Mary Magdalene’s identity as the sinful woman will likely remain a non-binding tradition in the Church. But it is a tradition that beautifully illustrates the ...

Scriptures and sayings to accompany what is drawn from a long-suppressed pseudo “Gospel of Mary Magdalene.” The Bible as we know it is comprised of the canonical books accepted by the church ...

and in the 1290s Pope Boniface VIII granted several bulls recognizing their Mary Magdalene relics as authentic and authorizing the construction of a basilica to hold them. The Catholic Church has ...

On Sunday, March 3, Hope Presbyterian Church in Wheaton presents a Lenten storytelling event with Megan Wells presenting “Mary Magdalene. It will begin at 3 p.m. at the church, 1771 S.