Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

by Meggan Watterson

Pope Gregory’s homily 33 with its interpretation of Mary as the prostitute took off like the hottest possible gossip, as we can imagine, and still reigns as truth today. According to Harvard scholar Dr. Karen King, the reason for the popularity of the Pope’s view of Mary (and why it has held the collective imagination for nearly two millennia) is because it served the early church fathers: “this fiction solved two problems at once by undermining both the teachings associated with Mary and women’s capacity to take on leadership roles.”5