Pope Francis emphasized Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion.

Credit: Vatican Media A biblical model of transformation Drawing from the Gospel of John’s account of Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, Francis emphasized how she “turned around” multiple ...

Whom should we trust? The Magdalene of the Gospels or the Magdalene of the Apocrypha? Is she the sinner of Luke or the sister of Martha? Or is she the Gnostic Mary of the Gospel of Philip, and thus to ...

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

FEATURING a vibrant musical score by post-minimalist composer John Adams, a libretto and stage direction by Peter Sellars and a fraught representation of Mary Magdalene as a woman on the edge of a ...

This order requires the term “sex” to be used instead of “gender,” and all official documents must designate the “correct” ...

It might be one of the most famous names on Earth, but experts say that 'Jesus' wasn't the real name of Christianity's ...

and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." 27 then he said to the disciple, "Here is your ...

Scientists claim Jesus Christ’s original name is not what we call him today. Also, Christ is not a surname but an honorific meaning ‘God’s anointed one’. What is the son of God’s real title then?

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration, the Daily Mail ...