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February 2026
February 25, 2026
Where’s Santa Muerte? The Catholic Altar of El Mencho
When news broke about the personal altar of slain CJNG kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes—aka El...
September 2025
September 14, 2025
First Santa Muerte Temple in Guatemala Razed in Arson Attack
In the predawn hours of September 13, yet another assault was carried out against the...
January 2025
January 16, 2025
Street Shrine to Satan and Santa Muerte Removed in Mexico
In my four decades of research, travel, and living in Mexico I have seen hundreds...
October 2024
October 22, 2024
Catholic Friar Claims Santa Muerte Originated in Ecuador
By Guest Contributor Walter Walgraeve, Bishop Emeritus* In recent years, Santa Muerte, the "Saint of...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
October 2022
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...
July 2022
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....
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 11, 2021
Sebastian and Santa Muerte – Simpatico Saints of Holy Death and LGBTQ
Having contemplated hundreds of Catholic saints over the past decade for my research both on...
May 2021
May 13, 2021
Mexican Catholics Turn to the Holy Child Doctor for Healing in Times of Covid-19
By Guest Contributor Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Across Mexico people are turning to miraculous holy healers...
October 2020
October 21, 2020
Mexico’s Dames and Days of Death – Santa Muerte, Catrina Calavera and Dia de los Muertos
Jointly authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury*, David B. Metcalfe**, and Dr. Andrew Chesnut The season...
August 2020
August 28, 2020
Colonizing Death -American Evangelist Crusades Against Santa Muerte at Landmark Shrine in Tepito
By Dr. Kate Kingsbury and Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut Since what is now the...
July 2020
July 25, 2020
During the second half of the 19th century in the mountain towns of New Mexico...
June 2020
June 28, 2020
First published by Oxford University Press in 2012 with the second edition in 2017, my...
May 2020
May 04, 2020
Supernatural Sorority – The Religious Feminism of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
What really struck me in the second episode of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is...
April 2020
April 26, 2020
Penny Dreadful is Plenty Dreadful: Cultural Misappropriation and More of Santa Muerte
Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In this piece we explore the...
March 2020
March 24, 2020
Life and Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the ‘Holy Healer’
‘My name is Death: the last best friend am I’. Robert Southey, 1816 Co-authored by...
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