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April 2025

April 26, 2025

Will Cardinal Tagle Be The First Asian Pope in 1,284 Years?

In the wake of Pope Francis’s death on 21 April 2025, the College of Cardinals...

February 2025

February 16, 2025

San Amlito: Ex-President AMLO as Mexico’s Newest Folk Saint

The love and admiration that many Mexicans have for former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador...

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...

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...

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...

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...

February 2021

February 10, 2021

2020 Census Reveals Catholic Decline and Protestant Growth in Mexico Under Pope Francis

By guest contributor Dr. Alejandro Díaz-Domínguez* This analysis originally appeared in the Nexos online blog...

August 2019

August 16, 2019

Holy Child of Raffles – The Mexican Christ Child Asleep on a Skull

Having researched the Mexican skeleton saint Santa Muerte for the past decade I am quite...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

Loving Saint Paulinus: Patron Saint of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

By Guest Contributor Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada* Nola, a small town outside of Naples in the...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

President Jair Messias Bolsonaro as Messiah for Brazilian Pentecostals

By guest contributor *Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi The Universal Church of the Kingdom of...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

Spirits of the Times – Research Team Kingsbury and Chesnut Discuss the Global Exorcism Boom

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut As of the past few decades,...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

Mexican Church Rebukes Holy Child of Huachicolero, Patron Saint of Gas Thieves, as Worse than Santa Muerte

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut He only appeared two years ago...

January 2019

January 28, 2019

President Lopez Obrador and Mexico’s New Religious Diversity

By Guest Columnist Ezer R. May May* and translated from the original Spanish by Dr....

January 16, 2019

Derrotando al Diablo ¿Que Hay detras del Boom Global del Exorcismo?

Co-autoria por la Dra. Kate Kingsbury* y el Dr. Andrew Chesnut. Traducido del ingles por la...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Brazilian President-Elect Jair Messias Bolsonaro as Messiah for Evangelicals and Conservative Catholics

Co-authored by Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Two factors were decisive...

November 21, 2018

‘Narcosaint’ Jesús Malverde Miraculously Materializes at Trial of El Chapo Guzman

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut While many Americans are now familiar...

November 14, 2018

The Knights Templar and Saint Nazario – The Narco-Gospel of a Mexican Drug Cartel

The interminable drug war in Mexico reveals that the lethal mix of religion and terrorism...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

Is Brazil Still Catholic? Andrew Chesnut Discusses the Brazilian Religious Landscape on NPR’s Interfaith Voices

I began my academic career as a specialist in religion in Brazil and authored the...

September 23, 2018

Catholic Church Picks a Bone with Cameroon Skull Cult

Authored by guest contributor Dr. Kate Kingsbury* The Bamiléké of Cameroon have long believed that...

September 06, 2018

An Analytical Snapshot of American Catholics

Pew Research Center, for which I have served as an academic consultant, has published seven...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Why is Exorcism All the Rage Across the Globe?

Authored by guest contributor Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Early Christianity featured exorcism at its fulcrum....

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Mexican Presidential Candidate AMLO Campaigns with Virgin of Guadalupe

The man who will very likely be elected the next president of Mexico in Sunday’s...

June 06, 2018

How the Polish Black Madonna Became Haitian Vodou Spirit Erzulie Dantor

By Dr. Kate Kingsbury† and Debra Van Neste* Since time immemorial religions have been born from...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Kiss of Death – Eros and Thanatos in a Barcelona Cemetery

This piece was supposed to be about the Virgin of Montserrat, the Black Matroness of...

May 17, 2018

From Kitchen Saint to Skeleton Saint Rey Pascual – The Bizarre Case of Pascual Bailon

Co-authored by Dr. Andrew Chesnut and Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Guatemalan folk saint Rey Pascual’s foundation...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Is There a “Francis Effect” in the United States?

A new poll by Gallup reveals that it is not only the pope's native Latin...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Holy Week with Brother Francis and Sister Death at the Shrine of the Black Christ of Esquipulas

During the 19th century in the mountain towns of New Mexico and southern Colorado, Mexican-American...

March 23, 2018

Is There a “Francis Effect” in the Pope’s Own Latin America?

One of the main reasons for which a Latin American was elected the first pope...

March 20, 2018

Spotlighting the Catholic faith in the Global South

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