Question:
Is it true that a fourth-century pope was giving a sermon, and afterward it got misconstrued that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, and the world ran with it?
Answer:
While we don’t know definitively, there is a longstanding tradition that Mary Magdalene was both Mary of Bethany and the woman (prostitute) who dried Jesus’ tears. And while Pope St. Gregory, who served from A.D. 590 to A.D. 604, certainly advanced this tradition, it preceded him. Our friend Fr. Williams Saunders analyzes the evidence.
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