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.

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 ...

Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. (Painting by Alexander Ivanov.) Listen ROME— At Pope Francis’s request, the annual observance on the Catholic calendar of St. Mary ...

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 idea for this column did not originate from a reader but from my interest in the period after Christ’s resurrection. It is about a little known follower of Jesus, Mary Magdalene or Mary of Magdala ...