Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said. bit.ly/3IFk8qd

⛪ Unaffiliated, but not undevoted Matthew Blanton's new #Socius study challenges common understandings of #secularization, finding increased personal religiosity alongside decreased institutional religiosity from 2004-2023 in #LatinAmerica. Read: doi.org/10.1177/237802…

We hear a lot about declining religiosity and the rise of the Nones in the United States and Europe. But, what about Latin America? Is secularization happening there, and if so, what form does it take? I explore this in my new open access article: tinyurl.com/46njwpem

The clearest sign I can find of Latinos abandoning the GOP after Trump's big gains in 2024 is Manassas Park, Va., a city of 17,000 people with a 46% Latino plurality population. Harris won it by 20 in 2024. Spanberger is winning it by 42 tonight.