Vatican condemns Halloween
The Vatican is warning parents not to let their kids dress up as ghosts and goblins this weekend for Halloween, calling it a pagan celebration of “terror, fear and death,” Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports in a dispatch from Rome…
The Vatican issued its warning through its official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, in an article headlined “Halloween’s Dangerous Messages.”
It quotes a liturgical expert, Joan Maria Canals as saying, “Halloween has an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian.”
Parents should “be aware of this and try to direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death,” says Father Canals, a member of a Spanish commission on church rites.
In many European countries, particularly those with large Catholic populations, the focus is on All Saints’ Day, on Nov. 1, when many families visit cemeteries to remember deceased loved ones.
Yup. Don’t dress up like an anti-Christian. Celebrate like a proper Catholic:
See. I told you the Republicans didn’t invent hypocrisy!
moss
October 31, 2009 at 6:02 am
Hmmm. Lets get this straight. A guy with holding a pike pole, wearing a jewel encrusted fishhead hat, ornate robes and surrounded by pedophiles dressed in red robes a lot of the time; now says that his subjects shouldn’t dress up in weird costumes on one day of the year?
Let it run before the wind Horatio, the French are sailing away.
gordeecampbell
October 31, 2009 at 10:40 am
LOL, love it !!!
Mr. Fusion
October 31, 2009 at 3:47 pm
LOL!!
Jägermeister
October 31, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Blasphemy!
fakegod
October 31, 2009 at 11:31 am
Here I thought “terror, fear and death” were the very foundations of all the Christian religions.
As a very young child, perhaps I wasn’t paying sufficient attention to my brainwashing in Sunday School…
Cinaedh
November 1, 2009 at 6:02 am
You forgot the most important ingredient… lies…
Jägermeister
November 1, 2009 at 7:25 am