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 ...

It is the final week of Jesus' life. The long-awaited "hour" of his death, pent up for so long like water behind a dam that is suddenly released, strikes with blinding speed and savage fury. Jesus' ...

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: ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Newmarket Films Mel Gibson has cast two actors to play Jesus and Mary Magdalene in The Resurrection of the Christ, the ...

" 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 ...

Hair believed to have once dried tears from Jesus' feet made its way to Acadiana. Holy relics of St. Mary Magdalene — locks of hair and a small piece of bone enclosed in a golden cross reliquary — ...