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May 2025

May 10, 2025

Pope Bob – Why a Progressive American Pontiff Now?

When white smoke curled above the Sistine Chapel on May 8 and Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the...

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...

October 2024

October 28, 2024

No Lost Cause: Saint Jude, Mexico’s Top Catholic Saint

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

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 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...

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....

January 2022

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...

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...

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...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

Praying to Godmother Death – New Evidence of Santa Muerte Venerated as ‘Comadre Sebastiana’ in 19th-Century New Mexico

During the second half of the 19th century in the mountain towns of New Mexico...

June 2020

June 14, 2020

The New Pentecostal Inquisition in Latin America – Guatemalan Maya Spiritual Guide Burned at Stake for Witchcraft

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut It's Brazil that's been in 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...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

Leading Santa Muerte Expert Interviewed on the Fastest Growing New Religious Movement in the West

What prompted your interest in the Santa Muerte phenomena?* I am a specialist in the...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Catholic Cartels? Ovidio Guzman and the Narco-Saints of Mexico

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Professor Andrew Chesnut A widely circulated photo of Ovidio...

October 11, 2019

Competing for Amazonian Souls – The Amazon Synod and Pentecostal Competition in the Global South

By Professor Andrew Chesnut and Doctor Kate Kingsbury* While the Catholic Church adopts a preferential...

October 01, 2019

Mexican Folk Saint Santa Muerte – The Fastest Growing New Religious Movement in the West

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Santa Muerte, Saint Death and Holy...

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...

July 2019

July 09, 2019

Brazil’s Black Sister Supernatural Queens – Oxum and Our Lady of Aparecida

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In a country with the world’s...

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...

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,...

April 10, 2019

Need It Done Fast? Meet Saint Expedite

By guest contributor Judika Illes* Where do you go if your legal papers are taking...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

Supplicating Santa Muerte: Fierce Female Folk Saint as Source of Empowerment for Mexican Indigenous Women

By Kate Kingsbury The Mexican State’s relationship with the region of Oaxaca, is tenuous, unlike...

March 15, 2019

The Sensational Saints of Folklore Thursday

Folklore Thursday is one of my favorite twitter accounts, which true to its name curates...

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....

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 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...

November 01, 2018

Exorcising Mictecacihuatl – The Origins of Day of the Dead in Mexico

Co-authored by Dr. Andrew Chesnut and David Metcalfe* In the U.S., the Catholic festival of...

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