VATICAN CITY — Faithful to the wish of Pope Francis, a new decree has bumped the liturgical celebration honoring St. Mary Magdalene from a “memorial” to a “feast,” putting her on par with the apostles ...

GAINES TOWNSHIP, MI — Bishop Walter Hurley told parishioners of St. Mary Magdalen to keep their eyes fixed on the Lord while mourning the loss of their church last Sunday to a devastating fire caused ...

The most important woman in human history was Mary, the Mother of God. No mere mortal has ever been so richly honored as she who bore God in her own flesh and truly named him her son. Who was the ...

Appearance of Jesus Christ to Maria Magdalena by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, 1835. (Credit: Catholic News Agency.) Listen Earlier this month, Spanish journalist Paloma Garcia Ovejero was tapped for ...

Hair believed to have once dried tears from Jesus' feet made its way to Acadiana. Holy relics of St. Mary Magdalene — locks of hair and a small piece of bone enclosed in a golden cross reliquary — ...

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 ...

As the stories of many ancient things go, the relic of St. Mary Magdalene’s left foot had been lost to memory for centuries before it was rediscovered in the year 2000. For a little over a decade now, ...

A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young ...

The final episode of Fox Nation's powerful series "The Saints" has arrived in just enough time to kick off the Easter weekend, closing out Christianity's holiest week of the year with the story of St.