Church Out of Time: “Deep in Mexico’s rebel heartland stands a centuries-old Catholic church that has heard no mass for 30 years.” Fortean Times Interesting to me because thirty years ago, as a college undergraduate, I lived in this remote Highland Maya village conducting ethnographic research on aspects of the grafting of Catholic iconography on pre-Columbian indigenous shamanic ritual practice, as described here. The author of this article has got some of the details wrong, but not many. Of course, San Cristobal has since become both a hip ecotravel stop and a nidus of rebellion against Mexican oppression of indigenous populations, neither of would be true until long after I lived there.