Recognizing St. Mary Magdalene's role as the first to witness Christ's resurrection and as a "true and authentic evangelizer," Pope Francis raised the July 22 memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a feast ...

A reader of my review of Mary Magdalene offers an impassioned defense for the medieval Western view of St. Mary Magdalene as a penitent with a notoriously wanton sexual past, a profligate adulteress ...

The bone fragments, which rest in a silver foot-shaped reliquary, are displayed for veneration in the Basilica of St. John the Baptist of the Florentines. St. Mary Magdalene’s relic is venerated at ...

Whether you believe she was a penitent prostitute, the wife of Jesus or the apostle’s apostle, Mary Magdalene and her story have intrigued the nation since Dan Brown published “The Da Vinci Code” in ...

I keep meeting people with deep scars on their consciences, festering wounds of guilt they cannot fully suppress. It seems they cannot find forgiveness. Pope Francis often recommends that we seek ...

WILLOWICK, Ohio (WJW) — Church festival season is right around the corner. Making sure those celebrations stay safe is a top priority for organizers and police departments across Northeast Ohio. The ...

The extraordinary sculpture of Mary Magdalene by the 15th century Bavarian carver Tilman Riemenschneider focuses our attention on her hair, which twists, curls and cascades down and around her body.