Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take ...

There is a serious controversy over the identity of St. Mary Magdalene that has continued since the early Church. The Gospels present three particular “characters” who are involved in this problem. St ...

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 ordained ...

On St. Mary Magdalene’s feast day, we read from the Song of Songs at Mass: “I will rise and will go about the city; in the streets and the broad ways I will seek Him Whom my soul loves.” And then: “I ...

I don’t know about you, but when someone starts reading a Pauline epistle at Mass, I find it hard not to be lulled into a state of half-consciousness by his repetitions, like in today’s first reading: ...

" The Chosen’s" Elizabeth Tabish is opened up about how playing Mary Magdalene in the biblical series touched her heart. Mary Magdalene, who meets Jesus when she is at a dark place in her life, finds ...

Last September, three days after my 37th birthday, I embarked on a journey I have long wanted to take: a visit to the Holy Land. There were many sacred moments that expanded my faith and perspective ...

CHESTER — In his masterful new play, "Magdalene," playwright Mark St. Germain imagines a fateful meeting between Mary Magdalene and the apostle, Peter, 18 years after Jesus’ death. The setting — ...