[Salvation]

See “Should Our Kids Celebrate Halloween?” by Fr. Augustine Thompson, O P., Catholic Parent, Sept./Oct. 1995

[Salvation]

Pope Gregory I, who reigned from 590-604, said, "Let the shrines of idols by no means be destroyed. Let water be consecrated and sprinkled in the temples, let altars be erected…so that the people, not seeing their temples destroyed, may displace error and recognize and adore the true God….And because they were wont to sacrifice to devils, some celebration should be given in exchange for this…they should celebrate a religious feast and worship God by their feasting, so that still keeping the outward pleasure, they may more readily receive spiritual joys." Quoted in John Greenway’s Folklore of the Great West (Palo Alto, California: American West Publishing Company, 1970), 384 (emphasis added).