Santa Muerte, the skeletal figure dressed in robes and wielding a scythe, is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the Western Hemisphere. Though often linked to drug cartels and criminals ...

At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbols mingled at the altar as ...

our culture was so flexible that we appropriated it and made it our own that we see certain practices of the indigenous reflected in Catholic celebrations. This is folk Catholicism, reflected ...