Not only is Mary Magdalene an important woman in the Bible, but she is also a saint, and probably the most misunderstood ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

In "The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene," Johnny Teague brings to life the hidden thoughts and emotions of one of history’s most ...

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 ...

He called Mary Magdalene, and she saw him for who he was. He can call any of us, and we will see him for who he is. Find your way to church, a place where ordinary people try to figure out what it ...

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.

Mary Magdalene stands at the head of a long line of women who have carried the torch of faith through history, often against tremendous resistance. From the wealthy women who supported the early ...

It hinges on the church’s practice of falsifying ... Starting in the 18th century, Magdalene asylums—named after Mary Magdalene, a friend of Jesus often described as a repentant prostitute ...

The Accademia stands on the Grand Canal in the former Santa Maria della Carità church, monastery and ... and Child and Saints Catherine and Mary Magdalene’, 1490, by Giovanni Bellini ‘The ...

This week the church celebrates the feast of Mary Magdalene, at a time when Catholicism finds itself in a definitive moment concerning the roles of women. In May, the first-ever deaconess was ...

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 ...