Someone who claims to be an ex-Catholic is surprised that someone still Catholic believes in purgatory?
The reality and inevitability of physical death must be socially recognised for death to be properly digested and understood by the culture. Holidays are part of that process of cultural orientation.
Halloween does need to be reformed, and materialist excesses rejected, but it does serve a social AND religious purpose by serving as a cultural theatre of mortality.
beg to differ, H’ween doesnt serve my faith or “religion” what so ever. Thank you.