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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If one were asked to name the time, place and person that can be identified with the suppression of the role of women in the early Christian church then: The time was 591 C.E. The place was Rome. The ...

Jul 12, 2017 Jul 12, 2017 Updated Feb 16, 2026 0 St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in downtown Omaha turns 150 in 2018. Over the years the church has seen a lot, including the lowering of Dodge ...

In this Tuesday, March 27, 2018 photo, a sculpture of Mary Magdalene and Jesus is on display at the Magdala center, on the Sea of Galilee in Migdal. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.) Listen MAGDALA, Israel ...

The Catholic Youth Organization at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Metairie presented its 17th annual Living Way of the Cross on April 12. CYO members participating included Matthew Gerrets as ...