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Three decades ago, the Roman Catholic Church quietly admitted what critics had been saying for centuries: Magdalene's standard image as a reformed prostitute is not supported by the text of the Bible. Freed of this lurid, limiting premise and employing varying ratios of scholarship and whimsy, academics and enthusiasts...
In 1988, the book Mary Magdalene: A Woman Who Showed Her Gratitude, part of a children's biblical-women series and a fairly typical product of its time, explained that its subject "was not famous for the great things she did or said, but she goes down in history as...
In 1969, in the liturgical equivalent of fine print, the Catholic Church officially separated Luke's sinful woman, Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene as part of a general revision of its missal. Word has been slow in filtering down into the pews, however. (It hasn't helped that Magdalene...
“Father Tom’s role in CSA and in undergraduate religious life at Harvard can never fully be explained or appreciated,” she wrote in an e-mail. “He worked tirelessly to welcome students to Harvard and to Harvard?...
Brennan’s responsibilities in the local Catholic community included celebrating the liturgy at St. Paul, offering counseling and spiritual guidance to undergraduates, and fostering communication between students and the parish community in his capacity as an advisor to the CSA, Sheehan said.