In a shocking twist to historical accounts, a contentious source has claims that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, often portrayed as a prostitute, and fathered two children. This revelation comes ...

Did Jesus have a wife and two kids? LONDON -- Did Jesus have a wife and two kids? That is the striking -- to some, blasphemous -- claim at the heart of the new book “The Lost Gospel: Decoding the ...

Last September, three days after my 37th birthday, I embarked on a journey I have long wanted to take: a visit to the Holy Land. There were many sacred moments that expanded my faith and perspective ...

St. Mary Magdalene’s feast on July 22 is the perfect time to see what we really can learn about her and from her. The raising of the rank of the liturgical veneration of St. Mary Magdalene from ...

Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Christ near the empty tomb is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malverne, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Today is ...

What we know about Mary Magdalene from the New Testament is precious little, but that didn't stop Pope Gregory the Great in 591 from preaching a sermon in which he conflated three accounts of almost ...

She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

Sex worker, saint, sinner, witness, wife. In the 2,000 years since Mary Magdalene is said to have watched Jesus Christ die on the cross, she’s been labeled many things. The label “prostitute” has ...

On Monday, the feast day of Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth Schrader planned to hike up a mountain in the south of France to the cave where, legend has it, the saint lived out her remaining days after the ...