“Run Like Mary Magdalene” — Pope Leo XIV’s Vision for Women in the Church

Gregory the Great turned her into a prostitute with one sermon. Fourteen centuries later, Pope Francis handed her an apostle’s feast — and from what I heard in Rome, Leo is only getting started.

A rework of the contemporary icon of Saint Mary Magdalene holds the crimson egg of Easter legend — tradition says she stood before the emperor Tiberius and announced, “Christ is risen.” (Br. Robert Lentz, OFM)

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