Editor’s Note: Laura Roush, an anthropology professor at Mexico’s Colegio de Michoacán, has extensively studied the Santa Muerte devotion in Mexico. The views expressed are her own. Mexico City CNN — ...

In her Georgia home, Tammy Bloome says her rosary to Santa Muerte, a skull-faced version of the Grim Reaper in woman’s garb. In Maryland, Sonia Doi gathers with her fellow spiritists — mostly women — ...

Daniel Santana's Mass at the Santa Muerte temple follows traditional patterns With readings, hymns and communion, Daniel Santana's Sunday service could pass for a traditional Catholic Mass, if it were ...