The Royal Family has any number of traditions going back centuries. Queen Elizabeth II held firmly to the majority of them, ...

A record-breaking exhibition in Rome celebrates an artist who refused to live in the shadow of Leonardo, Michelangelo and ...

Lost for hundreds of years after it was created sometime in the early 1600s and known only through recreations until re-discovered in 2014, artist Caravaggio’s ...

Mary Magdalene is one of the most intriguing figures in Christian history and has been portrayed in many different ways. Some say she was a sinner, others say she was a saint, some others say she ...

Then there’s Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso, whom I met while making a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2022.As a missionary and with Indigenous peoples of Brazil, Sister Laura ...

Another, Maj. David Chapman, led them in reading John 20:1-18 – the story of Mary Magdalene traveling to the tomb of Jesus in the darkness of Sunday before the sun rose, and finding it empty.

Mary may have come into contact with Jesus because of his healing powers. “Seven demons had gone out of her,” says Luke (Luke 8:2). Some scholars believe that the Magdalene may be the same ...

Sunday, April 20, is the Resurrection of the Lord. Mass readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8; John 20:1-9. After Mary Magdalene came ...

On Easter Sunday, Mary Magdalene and the other women went to the tomb early, wondering who would roll back the stone. But it had been removed by an angel, ... Peter eyed the face cloth folded to one ...

On Easter Sunday, Mary Magdalene and the other women went to the tomb early, wondering who would roll back the stone. But it had been removed by an angel, ... Peter eyed the face cloth folded to one ...

Eliza Griswold on Mary Magdalene, the subject of numerous controversies who is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese tells the tale of St. Mary Magdalene, a once-demon-possessed woman who transformed through faith in "The Saints." ...