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 the subject of the most-recited prayer in the world, but Mary also might be one of the least-known women in history, biblical scholar James D. Tabor argues in his latest book, “ The Lost Mary: ...

I grew up hearing the stories and characters of the New Testament, but I was in my 20s when I first learned that in the Latin tradition, Mary Magdalene is considered to be one and the same as Mary of ...

First, Christ had cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:2). Mary dearly loved him. In her confusion and ...

On Easter Sunday in the year 591 A.D., Pope Gregory I made an error that would sully the reputation of one of Christ’s greatest followers for centuries. During a ...

This lecture explores these questions: who is the real Mary Magdalene, and how does her charism continue to be lived in later generations? Sr. Osiek answers them in the context of other New Testament ...

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 ...

For years, internet users have shared images of a weathered skull inside a gold reliquary shaped like a woman's head, identifying it as the genuine skull of the biblical Mary Magdalene. Examples of ...

As the stories of many ancient things go, the relic of St. Mary Magdalene’s left foot had been lost to memory for centuries before it was rediscovered in the year 2000. For a little over a decade now, ...

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do. As ...

The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...