By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report - As for modern literature, a faithful Catholic would be better off reading The Da Vinci Hoax for an accurate understanding of her character than wasting time with the popular portrayal of the Magdalene in recent books and movies... But what do we really know about Mary Magdalene? In the only book we can truly trust, the Bible, she is only explicitly named in a few incidents in the Gospels: She is described as the woman out of whom Jesus cast seven demons (Mark 16:9, Luke 8:2). ...