It’s Still Too Early to Celebrate Halloween
Our culture’s shallow understanding of All Hallows’ Eve starts ringing hollow weeks in advance
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All Saints and All Souls (Oct. 30)
This week’s Register Radio shines a light on All Saints Day when Catholic News Agency’s Hannah Brockhaus tells the story of some of the Church’s newest saints and blesseds. Then we turn to All Souls and remembering the dead — even those we didn’t know — when we highlight the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Requiem Mass for the Homeless with composer Frank LaRocca of the Benedict XVI Institute.
The Sacred and the Profane: Religious Themes in Vampire Fiction
Almost from the beginning, vampire fiction has been a battleground between the powers of heaven and hell.
4 Marks of Celtic Influence on Catholic Halloween
Here are four facets of Halloween that point to its Celtic origins as one of the traditional quarter days in Ireland.
In Poland, Halloween is Hallowed, not Hellish
Halloween is increasingly being stripped of its Catholic essence worldwide — except in Poland, where traditions remembering the saints in heaven and faithful departed in purgatory are carried on with devotion.
Halloween Coincides With Feast of Missionary Bishop St. Wolfgang
The 10th-century Benedictine monk and bishop was a Church reformer in southeast Germany.
As Halloween Approaches, an Exorcist Speaks on the Reality of Satan
An interview with a London priest who battles the devil.
Is It Really Possible to ‘Sell Your Soul’ to the Devil?
You have been bought at a great price, and the glory of that is only yours to share.
Time for Reflection: All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints and All Souls’ Day
COMMENTARY: These three events come upon us at exactly the moment when all of us grieve a little for a dying world and a dying year.
