Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I love this guy so much.\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it's a fitting act during this year of mercy given\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love this guy so much.\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it's a fitting act during this year of mercy given\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Catholic and Enjoying It!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-10T16:18:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-10T16:19:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Shea\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Shea\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html\",\"name\":\"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-10T16:18:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-10T16:19:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5\"},\"description\":\"I love this guy so much.\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it's a fitting act during this year of mercy given\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/\",\"name\":\"Catholic and Enjoying It!\",\"description\":\"Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5\",\"name\":\"Mark Shea\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mark Shea\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/author\/markshea\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast","description":"I love this guy so much.\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it's a fitting act during this year of mercy given","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast","og_description":"I love this guy so much.\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it's a fitting act during this year of mercy given","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html","og_site_name":"Catholic and Enjoying It!","article_published_time":"2016-06-10T16:18:42+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-06-10T16:19:02+00:00","author":"Mark Shea","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Shea","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html","name":"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-06-10T16:18:42+00:00","dateModified":"2016-06-10T16:19:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5"},"description":"I love this guy so much.\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it's a fitting act during this year of mercy given","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/","name":"Catholic and Enjoying It!","description":"Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5","name":"Mark Shea","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mark Shea"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/author\/markshea"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":95712,"date":"2016-06-10T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=95712"},"modified":"2016-06-10T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:19:02","slug":"pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/pope-raises-memorial-of-st-mary-magdalene-to-a-feast.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Raises Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I love this guy so much.<\/a>\u00a0St. Mary Magdalene not only gets honored as the Apostle to the Apostles, but it\u2019s a fitting act during this year of mercy given her common veneration as the \u201csinful woman\u201d who received the mercy of God in washing Christ\u2019s feet with her tears. \u00a0A characteristic gesture from a pope whose entire papacy can be summed up in \u201cHe has preached good news to the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only the radically blinded can look at this guy and see evil while finding Donald Trump to be their hope of salvation. \u00a0Future generations will look back on this period in American Church history and wonder what madness overtook us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"