Dressed in a flowing white robe and often wielding both a scythe and a globe, Santa Muerte — a cross between the Grim Reaper and the Virgin of Guadeloupe, Mexico’s patron saint — is just one ...

The future patron saint of prisoners, drug addicts and journalists was born in Poland on Jan. 8, 1894, as Raymund Kolbe, the second son of Julius Kolbe and Maria Dąbrowska. At the age of 9 ...

CULIACAN, Mexico (RNS) On Wednesday, men, women and children of all ages will march in a procession in honor of Jesus Malverde, a Robin Hood-like folk hero. CULIACAN, Mexico (RNS) Every year ...

Worshipers flock to shrines of him in Sinaloa. He’s not the only narco-saint. There’s also Santa Muerte, a female version of the Grim Reaper. Neither are recognized by the Catholic Church but ...

The faces of the Saints. Even a Saint for pierogies. "There are patron saints for everything, so I'm not surprised there is a patron saint of pierogi," says Father Nick Vaskov at Saint Stanislaus ...

"A lot of Mexican drug traffickers were praying for protection from law enforcement officers," said Almonte, who's teaching a seminar called "Patron Saints of the Mexican Drug Underworld".

Randy Ribay remembers the anger he felt when he first read about the drug war in the Philippines a few years ago. “There was an immediate reaction of ‘this is wrong, there’s no due process ...