According to the Gospel, the first person to encounter the risen Christ is the female disciple Mary of Magdala, also known as Mary Magdalene. John recounts the amazing story in the Gospel passage ...

Farrah Glisson faithfully attends our Sunday evening Mass at Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken and for years has handed out the church bulletin as people depart. I call her “our communicator.” Then ...

She's been apostle to the apostles. She's been Jesus' disciple and Jesus' wife. She's been a sinner and a saint, played a starring role in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and ended up a feminist icon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new film about Mary Magdalene explores the woman behind the myths Sex worker, saint, sinner, witness, wife. In the 2,000 years ...

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 ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Father James Rowland is the priest of St. Mary Magdalene church. He, along with Father Timothy Kelly, had a vision to build a brand new Roman-style inspired church from the ...

The most important woman in human history was Mary, the Mother of God. No mere mortal has ever been so richly honored as she who bore God in her own flesh and truly named him her son. Who was the ...

“She whom Luke calls the sinful woman and whom John names as Mary (John 11: 2), we believe that she is that Mary of whom, according to Mark, the Lord has cast out seven demons (cf Mk 16: 9). And what ...

Members of the Catholic Youth Organization at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Metairie presented a Living Way of the Cross recently. The production was directed by John and Benita Dale, as it has ...