Mary Magdalene is justly celebrated as a feminist icon, for like womankind in general she has been the object of endless projection, one fantasy after another luridly tattooed on the screen of her flesh. That some of these projections are in fact feminist projections only confirms her status as a saint for our times. Mary of Magdala is Mary of Irony, too.
Like the Son of man who “bears the sins of the world,” this Daughter of woman bears that most pernicious form of sin: the need to remake another human being according to the image, the label, the notion that best suits our agendas at any given time.
Read Full Article »