
It’s Still Too Early to Celebrate Halloween
Our culture’s shallow understanding of All Hallows’ Eve starts ringing hollow weeks in advance
Our culture’s shallow understanding of All Hallows’ Eve starts ringing hollow weeks in advance
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.
Almost from the beginning, vampire fiction has been a battleground between the powers of heaven and hell.
Here are four facets of Halloween that point to its Celtic origins as one of the traditional quarter days in Ireland.
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.
The 10th-century Benedictine monk and bishop was a Church reformer in southeast Germany.
An interview with a London priest who battles the devil.
You have been bought at a great price, and the glory of that is only yours to share.
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.
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