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June 2026

June 22, 2026

Mexico’s Soccer Baby Jesus: Praying for a World Cup Miracle

As Mexico hosts the FIFA World Cup along with Canada and the U.S., one of...

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...

December 2025

December 09, 2025

Sixteen Remarkable Revelations About the Virgin of Guadalupe

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

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...

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...

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...

September 2024

September 29, 2024

Why is Pope Francis Increasingly Unpopular in the Americas?

The declining popularity of Pope Francis in both Latin America and the United States, as...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

October 04, 2020

Evangelical Churches Seize Power in Latin America: ‘The Catholic Church Has Been Lax’

"The Bible returns to the presidential palace." That's what the Bolivian interim President Jeanine Áñez...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

Dr. Kate Kingsbury Pens Foreword to Turkish Edition of “Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint”

First published by Oxford University Press in 2012 with the second edition in 2017, my...

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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