Paper given at the ‘On commotions and commodities. Catholic celebrities in 19th and 20th century Europe’ international workshop held on 22nd June at the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp (part of the ERC-funded Stigmatics project)
Lecture: ‘There’s no doubt – I’m one of the devout’: Fandom and Popular Cults, Sacred and Secular
Guest lecture given on COM 5218 Celebrity and Fan Culture module, Richmond American International University, London, on 16th October, at the invitation of Associate Professor of Communication, Dr Fred Vermorel
Blog: Fulton Sheen Relics Row
Last week saw the abrupt halting of the cause for the beatification of Fulton Sheen – Auxiliary Bishop of New York in the 1950s, later Bishop of Rochester, and Emmy Award-winning TV personality, with programmes that got audiences of 30 million at his peak
Blog: An Angel in the Trenches, A Bestseller in the Shops – Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Commercial Religion and the First World War
The First World War saw some of the richest (and kitschest) pieces of material devotional culture produced by the Carmel of Lisieux
Blog: Jesus of the Potatoes – Saint Faustyna and the Divine Mercy Devotion
Having just waded through all 644 pages of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska (1905-1938), Polish nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and founder of the internationally popular Divine Mercy devotion, I’ve resolved to try to make sense of it in the context of the modern history of popular Catholic culture
Lecture: ‘There’s no doubt – I’m one of the devout’: Fandom and Popular Cults, Sacred and Secular
Guest lecture given on COM 5218 Celebrity and Fan Culture module, Richmond American International University, London, on 24th October, at the invitation of Associate Professor of Communication, Dr Fred Vermorel
Blog: Nowa Huta – New towns and old religion
Nowa Huta is the largest district of Poland’s former capital, Kraków, but has little in common with the picture postcard medieval city centre
Blog: Action Pope! Representations of John Paul II
A year ago today Pope John Paul II was beatified in a ceremony at Saint Peter’s Square, just six years after his death. Last month I visited both John Paul’s hometown of Wadowice and the Archdiocesan Museum of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła in Kraków during a trip to Poland
Blog: ‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’ – Deller, fandom and the south east Essex scene
Tomorrow the Jeremy Deller retrospective ‘Joy in People’ opens at London’s Hayward Gallery. Part of the exhibition will engage with ‘Deller’s interest in the social character of pop music’ and ‘the enthusiasms, rituals and passionate loyalty of fans [which] have all provided the artist with inspiration’
Blog: ‘Voyage excentrique aux Cordillères des Andes’ – Céline Martin, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and a remarkable photograph album
The archives du Carmel de Lisieux have recently launched a new website, putting materials relating to the life and posthumous fame of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux online for the first time. The convent was the saint’s home during the last nine years of her life and its archives have been the guardians of her legacy ever since
Sophia Deboick 
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