CATHOLICISM MADE A MINI COMEBACK

Catholicism has always lent itself to transgression. Its flamboyant aesthetics and patriarchal power structure have inspired everything from Renaissance art to Nunsploitation films, and the Met Gala to the relationship between Fleabag and her Hot Priest.

- EMMA GARLAND

Those raised in repressive Catholic environments also have a tendency to reclaim its signifiers, whether it's Chicano youths wearing rosary beads as an accessory in a deeply segregated Los Angeles in the 30s/40s to goths wearing a little dangly cross in their ear. In the past 12 months, though, we've gone from political and sexual subversion in art, film and TV to young women selling $5 absolutions on Depop.