This is "Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene After the Resurrection" by the Russian painter Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Because Mary's heart has been turned toward Christ through conversion and ...

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 ...

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 ...

While conventional wisdom sees Mary Magdalene as a trollop-turned-saint, recent scholars and popular biographers (including evangelical funny lady Liz Curtis Higgs) have quite convincingly argued that ...

Whether you believe she was a penitent prostitute, the wife of Jesus or the apostle’s apostle, Mary Magdalene and her story have intrigued the nation since Dan Brown published “The Da Vinci Code” in ...