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Jesus Christ Weds Pat Robertson
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
He was an extremist as a youth, busting up temple bake-sales, driving defenseless, non-kosher animals into the sea, going around with that shiksa Magdalene, ...
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Come meet the Goddess
ABS CBN News - Philippines
Even the last production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" that I watched here pissed me off--Mary Magdalene was portrayed as a whore who was trying to get into ...
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And on the third day, it went to DVD
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... tomb uncovered in 1980 in Jerusalem, and drew controversial conclusions about who was buried inside -- Jesus and Mary Magdalene among them. ...
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Bible park would make county laughing stock
Daily News Journal (subscription) - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
Since we are following the life of Jesus, they must certainly have a Mary Magdalene character, probably a big head that wanders the park. ...
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For Catholics, women’s ordination may be here sooner than you think
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Before 20000 people in the Vatican’s General Audience Hall, Benedict recalled that Lazarus’ sisters, Mary and Martha, as well as Mary Magdalene, ...
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Book Review: Magdalene Rising - The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
Magdalen Rising: The Beginning is the tale of young Maeve, the girl who will grow up to be Mary Magdalen, only she’s not Jewish. Far, far from it. ...

 

April 11 Address on the Risen Christ
Zenit News Agency - Rome,Italy
In these days, the liturgy recalls the different meetings with Jesus after his resurrection: with Mary Magdalene and the other women who had gone in the ...

 

New Jesus Film Reaches Out to Women in Middle East
ChristianToday - London,UK
The classic Jesus Film has been digitally expanded to include a special focus on the love and respect shown by Jesus to Mary Magdalene in an effort to win ...

 

Scholars revise conclusions about ‘Jesus family tomb’
Indian Catholic - New Delhi,India
The filmmakers attempted to explain some of the inscriptions on the ossuaries by suggesting that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and that the couple ...

 

Documentary claims unfounded, profs say
Lehigh University The Brown and White - Bethlehem,PA,USA
He said there are arguments that the inscription, which the documentary translates as “Mary The Teacher,” does not equate to Mary Magdalene, ...

 

Experts back away from Jesus's tomb claims
CBC Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
There is also a dispute over an inscription on the ossuary that the film had purported was that of Mary Magdalene. A specialist in ancient text, Prof. ...

 

Accept the call to witness and spread the good news, pope urges ...
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
Like the apostles and Mary Magdalene, the pope said, "we are called to be witnesses to the death and resurrection of Christ. We cannot keep the great news ...

 

Pope reflects on disciples' reactions to the Resurrection
Catholic World News - USA
That seems a contrast with his earlier meeting with St. Mary Magdalene, whom he warns not to touch Him. But the Pope noted an important difference: "Mary ...

 

Jesus tomb documentary scholars backtrack
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
The filmmakers attempt to explain some of the inscriptions on the ossuaries by suggesting that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and that the couple had ...

 

A story of Jesus with present-day issues
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
This is no play for Sunday school class outings: The Mary Magdalene counterpart (played by Sherel) is seen on her knees at the conclusion of a sex act. ...

 

One-woman play tells stories of women at crucifixion
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
Woodford’s portrayal of Mary Magdalene was particularly stirring. She played a woman, who was both devoted to and moved by Christ’s compassion, noting: ...
 

How new claims about Jesus are bound to affect this Easter
Kenya Times - Kenya
Although Nikos does not mention specifically that Jesus got married to Mary Magdalene and bore children, like any human beings he had sexual desires, ...

 

The much-maligned Mary Magdalene
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
Many, even up to that point, like most Christians, had inadvertently believed the common perception that Mary Magdalene was indeed a prostitute before her ...

 

Films on Mary free at the U.
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
The University of Utah will screen two films about Mary Magdalene this week during what is being called "Women's History Month meets Holy Week." ...

 

Spiritual Perspectives A Woman's Place
Gallup Independent - Gallup,NM,USA
Later, while he was on the cross, standing by were Mary, his mother; Mary Magdalene, and another Mary. Only one of his male followers is mentioned in this ...

 

Film in Development, Think Pretty Woman Meets The DaVinci Code
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Joey Vegas Productions, LLC in New York City Film in development MARY'S DILEMMA. A warm Romantic Comedy Fable putting Mary Magdalene in present day New York ...

 

'Jesus Tomb' Wrong: Magdalene Ossuary Misidentified
Purple Pew - Evansville,IN,USA
Dr. Stephen Pfann, paleographer at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, asserts in his online paper "Mary Magdalene Is Now Missing" that the ...

 

 

The Decatur Daily - Decatur, AL
Catholic saints must pass investigation, votes
... crime victims. Even prostitutes have a patron saint — Mary Magdalene, out of whom Jesus cast seven devils. Roman Catholic, Orthodox ...
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The Kansas City Star
And now for a word about Mary
By Bill Tammeus
This novel gives readers what Brown’s does not — freedom from a false claim that all the historical elements in the book are factual. So the story can be taken as, well, a story, featuring a strong-willed woman.

Virtue Online - West Chester,PA,USA
The Da Vinci Code Heresy
... of Jesus Christ, misleading billions of the faithful." Jesus is portrayed not as God but as only as a great teacher who married Mary Magdalene and fathered a ...
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Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
Amid 'Da Vinci Code' buzz, a chance to discover God's feminine ...
The story goes like this: Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a baby, and from that child came a long line of descendants, the last a French cryptologist named Sophie ...
 
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA
Mary Magdalene
... According to Scripture, Mary Magdalene was none of the above. And more than the above. ... So how did we get so off the mark on Mary Magdalene? ...
 
USA Today - USA'
Code' and the sacred feminine
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The story line is well known: Jesus married Mary Magdalene and intended for her to succeed him as leader of his church; she was pregnant when he was crucified ...
 
Chicago Tribune - United States
Old professor provides the key to cracking `The Da Vinci Code'
... at all. Yes but in an ancient Aramaic book, the Gospel of Philip, Mary Magdalene is called Jesus' "companion.". Wrong again. It was ...
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San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA
See film? No. Read book? No. Protest both? Sure
... premise — that an ongoing church conspiracy has suppressed evidence of Jesus' humanity, including a child he fathered with Mary Magdalene — is nothing ...
 

Malaysia Kini - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
Magdalene was devoted disciple
... fell swoop. The New Testament (and some apocryphal scriptures) described Mary Magdalene as a devoted disciple of Jesus. In the eyes ...
 

Main Street Newspapers - Jefferson,GA,USA
Local congregations address popularity of ‘The Da Vinci Code’
... a member of the Priory of Sion, a centuries-old secret society with elite members whose mission was to preserve the “truth” about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. ...

Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
Breaking the Da Vinci code
... The Da Vinci Code charges that the Catholic Church has been using murder and other foul means to suppress the 'fact' that Jesus married Mary Magdalene that his ...
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News Leader - Fernandina Beach,FL,USA
VIEWPOINT ~~ The Da Vinci Code is a big lie
... The heart of the book and movie is that Mary Magdalene is the "holy grail" (not the traditional cup used in the Last Supper) and her womb is the "sacred blood ...
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Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
Churches threaten theatres on ‘Da Vinci Code’
... The Christians warned movie theatres not to screen the movie that depicts Jesus Christ as having married Mary Magdalene. Speaking ...

History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA
The Da Vinci Code: A Fun Bunch of Hooey
... in The Da Vinci Code. Q. The Da Vinci Code's main premise is that Jesus actually married Mary Magdalene. True? A. This notion has ...
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National Catholic Reporter - USA
Deciphering the 'Da Vinci Code'
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in the book, the end appears to arrive at least twice before it actually occurs, with Langdon kneeling before the supposed sepulcher of Mary Magdalene deep in ...
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Rediff - India
The woman who will play Sonia
From playing Mary Magdalene in 2004's The Passion Of The Christ, to taking on the role of Persephone in 2005's The Matrix Online, Monica Bellucci has done her ...

 

Collegenews.org - Washington,D.C.,USA
He’s Done with Da Vinci - The Code, Not the Artist
... for the last few years, Dan Brown’s novel revolves around a secret kept hidden for centuries: that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene, they had a ...
 

Minnesota Women's Press - St. Paul, MN, USA
Da Vinci Code lifts lid on goddess scholarship
... of The Da Vinci Code movie, based on the runaway bestseller by Dan Brown, for suggesting that Jesus Christ was married to his follower Mary Magdalene and that ...
 

The Simon - Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Da Vinci Code: Professorman Will Save the Day
... There’s also another issue which gets deflected amid all of the discussion of the incendiary nature of returning Mary Magdalene to her “true” status as...
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India-Forum - USA
Silencing The Da Vinci Code
... His premises, the ones that the Church fears, are: Jesus married Mary Magdalene and created a lineage. ... Shocked at this sight, Mary Magdalene faints. ...

 

Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com

She witnessed the resurrection, then vanished, leaving popes and painters and now 'The Da Vinci Code' to tell her story. In search of the real Mary Magdalene.

 

USATODAY.com
Experts: No biblical basis for Mary Magdalene intrigue

Get breaking news in your inbox as it happens ... An icon of St. Mary Magdalene, the principal woman disciple of Christ, is on permanent display at Grace ... www.usatoday.com/news/religion/ 2006-02-28-mary-magdalene_x.htm - 52
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700 club

Jesus and Mary Magdalene: A ‘Divine’ Encounter -- Entertainment ...

For more stories like this one, sign up to receive Entertainment News from ... Many biblical truths are twisted in Brown’s novel and Mary Magdalene, too, ... www.cbn.com/entertainment/books/elliott_Divine.asp - 32k - May 3, 2006 -  
 

HindustanTimes.com
Jesus & Mary Magdalene :
To the very end, Mary of Magdala or Mary Magdalene followed Jesus with unwearied devotion and undaunted courage, even through the dangers that broke the ...
www.hindustantimes.com/ news/181_1669202,001100010004.htm - 77k

Catholic News Service
Scholars setting record straight on Mary Magdalene
Scholars seek to correct Christian tradition on Mary Magdalene (2/5/06) MORE STORIES The battle of 'The Da Vinci Code' (Associated ... www.cathnews.com/news/605/23.php - 21k - May 3, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

 

WOAI-TV—San Antonio, TX
"Da Vinci Code" Raises Eyebrows over Mary Magdalene
by RICHARD N. OSTLING, AP Religion Writer
February 28, 2006
Redeemed sinner, prostitute, wife of Jesus? Mary Magdalene's image has gone through myriad incarnations over the centuries, and this Lenten season she's drawing new attention...

New Yorker
Annals of Religion
THE SAINTLY SINNER
The two-thousand-year obsession with Mary Magdalene.
by JOAN ACOCELLA  Issue of 2006-02-13 and 20 Posted 2006-02-0
The Catholic Church presumably has enough on its hands right now without worrying about popular fiction,...

New York Times
A Pulpit Online for Critics of 'The Da Vinci Code' Film
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Published: February 9, 2006
At a time when conservative Christian groups have been particularly quick to strike back at Hollywood fare they find offensive, Sony Pictures faced a predicament with its coming film "The Da Vinci Code."...

Christian Science Monitor
What we can learn from Mary Magdalene
Jan. 17, 2006
by Tom D'Evelyn
Mary Magdalene is back - again. As Bruce Chilton argues in Mary Magdalene: A Biography, her irrepressible image shows "how much the Western imagination still wants a rich and powerful Mary to protect the poor, defenseless Jesus."

Newsweek
The Bible’s Lost Stories
Fueling faith and igniting debate, a new generation of scholars is altering our beliefs about the role of women in the scriptures
By Barbara Kantrowitz and Anne Underwood
Dec. 8, 2005 issue - The year’s surprise “it” girl is the star of a mega best seller, a hot topic on campuses and rumored to be the “special friend” of a famous and powerful man. Yet she’s still very much a woman of mystery. For close to 2,000 years, Christians have known her as Mary Magdalene...

BBC News
Unseen Da Vinci works go on show
Saturday, 15 October 2005
Two previously unseen paintings by Leonardo da Vinci have gone on public display for the first time in Italy.
 

BBC News
Church fights Da Vinci Code novel
March 15, 2005
The Roman Catholic Church in Italy has spoken out against what it says are "shameful and unfounded lies" in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa, broke the church's official silence on the controversial book.
Its story about the Church suppressing the "truth"  that Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene ...

National Geographic News
"Da Vinci Code" Spurs Debate: Who Was Mary Magdalene?
April 8, 2004
Stefan Lovgren

CNN
The Two Marys: The Madonna and the Magdalene
2004
CNN Presents looks at two women at the heart of Christianity -- Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene, the most misunderstood and controversial of his disciples.

PBS
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Nov. 21, 2003
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: There's a movement under way among many Catholic women and women scholars to revise the reputation of Mary Magdalene.

The Christian Science Monitor
Who was Mary Magdalene? The buzz goes mainstream
November 14, 2003
By Jane Lampman | Staff writer
A blockbuster novel, a controversial TV special, and a just-released book on a long-hidden gospel bearing her name: The woman known as Mary Magdalene is again at the center of a swirl of speculation...

BBC News
US TV set for 'Jesus wife' storm
Oct. 31, 2003
A leading US TV news reporter has said her network is taking a risk with a news special which asks whether Jesus Christ had a wife...

Time Magazine
Mary Magdalene Saint or Sinner?
Aug.11, 2003
By David Van Biema
A new wave of literature is cleaning up her reputation. How a woman of substance was "harlotized"...