The Gospel of Mary of Magdala:
My eyes have been opened. Having attended a Catholic school in Texas for a brief time in middle school and throughout all of my high school, I have never been thoroughly taught about The Gospel of Mary. Although we have heard stories about her exorcism and how she was a prostitute, I was under the impression that that was her real significance. Having focused on the main topics of the Bible, and learning about other forms of ethics/moralities, we must have skipped over her writings. After reading that eleven-page introduction, I can see why. The first reason being and one that I have sort of forgotten was the fact that Catholicism is old. Having the internet now, I don’t think I’ve had to really struggle for information, and seeing how hard it was to preserve teachings before is amazing. It’s crazy to believe that just neglecting a book could deem it unreliable or illegible forever and that there are not really any substantial hard-bound books, just papyruses to base entire cultures off of. The second reason is that I think she might have experienced a little bit of gender bias. Oddly enough, the Church in her conception was not as organized as it is currently, and the fact that you had a council of male Bishops essentially doing anything they can to bring order to a religion that didn’t really have a framework, may lead to some details being left out.