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July 2024

July 12, 2024

Brazilian Pentecostal Crime Boss Peixão Ramps Up Holy War

One of the disturbing new trends on the diverse religious landscape of Brazil is Pentecostal...

May 2024

May 23, 2024

Mexican Tribunal Rules on Controversial Santa Muerte T-Shirt

With Mexican elections less than two weeks away, the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch...

April 2024

April 23, 2024

Mexican President AMLO Defends Santa Muerte

This morning Mexican president Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) became the first Mexican...

April 10, 2024

Catholic UFOs and New Religious Movements

On April 8, 2024, I hosted Professor Diana Pasulka of University of North Carolina, Wilmington,...

January 2024

January 06, 2024

Pastor Smashes Santa Muerte and Virgin of Guadalupe Statues

In a shocking incident that has gone viral in Mexico, an American Baptist pastor destroyed...

December 2023

December 13, 2023

20 Differences Between Santa Muerte and San La Muerte

By guest contributor Dr. Alejandro Frigerio* The sanctification of death and the similarity of their...

December 08, 2023

The Two Skeleton Saints – A Journey Into the Fascinating World of Santa Muerte and San La Muerte

By guest contributor, anthropologist Luciano Martucci The unprecedented ethnographic exposition in Bologna, which revealed the...

October 2023

October 23, 2023

Lost Causes and Left-Handed Favors – Saint Jude, the Most Popular Catholic Saint in Mexico

Practically unknown in Mexico before the 1980s, Saint Jude Thaddeus has catapulted to the top...

October 01, 2023

Umbanda – Religious Syncretism Brazilian Style

Umbanda is a syncretic Brazilian religion that originated in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s....

July 2023

July 28, 2023

Our Lady of Pride – Santa Muerte Loves Her Queer Children

By guest contributor Emma Cieslik* Content warning: This piece mentions self harm and suicide. Caption:...

July 05, 2023

Slave Anastacia – Folk Saint, Umbanda Spirit and Symbol of Afro-Brazilian Empowerment

Escrava Anastácia, or Slave Anastacia, is a fascinating figure on the Brazilian spiritual landscape who...

June 2023

June 06, 2023

Somebody’s Always Watching Me – Dr. Andrew Chesnut Interviews Antonio Pagliarulo on His New Book “The Evil Eye”

Dr. Andrew Chesnut: Antonio – you just published this new book on one of...

April 2023

April 25, 2023

Saint of Death Santa Muerte Gave Me a New Lease on Life

By guest contributor Seamus Bellamy* I found Santa Muerte before I came to Mexico....

March 2023

March 29, 2023

Santa Muerte Guides Me as a Death Doula

My name is Carl Orosco* and I'm a Death Doula. A Death Doula is a...

March 01, 2023

Amid Massive Street Protests Mexican President AMLO Tweets a Fake Elf Photo

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has found himself at the center of controversy...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Former Mexican Top Cop on Trial in NYC Worshiped the Devil and Santa Muerte

Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna, is currently on trial in a...

January 11, 2023

Recensione di “Santa Muerte: I Sette Volti della Mietitrice”

Circa quattro anni fa, all'inizio del mio percorso di devozione alla Santa Muerte, mi sentivo...

December 2022

December 09, 2022

Mestiza Madonna: 16 Fascinating Facts on Virgin of Guadalupe

Mexicans will tell you that they are 90 percent Catholic but 100 percent Guadalupan. While...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Death Romanticized at Genoa’s Stegliano Cemetery

On June 12, 1804, the edict of Saint-Cloud promulgated by Napoleon Bonaparte radically changed cemetery...

October 2022

October 20, 2022

The Holy Trinity of Justice – Saint Justus, Christ the Just Judge and San la Muerte

Dr. Andrew Chesnut writes in his book Devoted to Death: "If the association between Santa...

October 14, 2022

Mexico’s Death Trio: La Catrina, Day of Dead, Santa Muerte

Co-authored by Professor Andrew Chesnut, Dr. Kate Kingsbury*, and Mr. David B. Metcalfe** The season...

September 2022

September 09, 2022

From Bloody Heretic to Catholic Saint – The Beatification of Brazilian Folk Saint Padre Cicero

Beatification News by Eduardo Lima In a country where people have revered folk religious figures...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

Emerald Eyes and Tears of Blood – The Unusual Advocations of the Christ Child in Mexico

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Those who aren't Catholic or familiar...

July 06, 2022

The Thug Saint Trinity of Mexico – Jesus Malverde, Santa Muerte and Saint Jude

Most street shrines in Mexico are dedicated to a single Catholic or folk saint....

June 2022

June 08, 2022

Catholic Decline Continues in Latin America under Argentine Pope Francis

There is compelling evidence of continued Catholic decline in Latin American, which is home to...

January 2022

January 07, 2022

Death on the Road – A Vision of Santa Muerte in the American Heartland

By Guest Contributor Aaman Lamba* In the before times, when we were all free birds...

January 03, 2022

Foreword to the French Edition of “Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint”

By Dr. Kate Kingsbury* We are living in a time of much death, or what...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

Meet the Mexican Death Trinity – Day of the Dead, Catrina Calavera and Santa Muerte

The season of death is upon us. October is here impending Halloween with its cavalcade...

September 2021

September 03, 2021

The Good Death Resurrected – Memento Mori and Santa Muerte as Spirit of the Times

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Professor R. Andrew Chesnut Having spent the past decade...

August 2021

August 18, 2021

Holy Hellraisers – Meet the Thug Saints of Venezuela

By Guest Contributor Marvin J. Mijares* Since I can remember, I have heard of people...

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