The Forgotten Feast of All Hallows’ Eve, by Anthony DeStefano

Ours is the only culture in history that mocks the devil while pretending he doesn’t exist.

Every Halloween, we flirt with the infernal, pretending it’s all make-believe—until something evil happens, and then we stand astonished that the line between play and peril has worn so thin. Halloween is, strangely enough, the one night when modern secular man admits he believes in something beyond himself—only he chooses to believe the wrong thing. Having lost his saints, he now settles for skeletons.

None of this happens in a vacuum. Over the past year, places of worship have become scenes of unthinkable carnage: at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, a gunman opened fire during a children’s Mass, killing two students and wounding over a dozen others. In Michigan, a man rammed his truck into a Latter-day Saints chapel, opened fire on congregants, and set the building ablaze—four dead and eight more wounded. And of course, Charlie Kirk—a strong and outspoken Christian who never hesitated to proclaim his faith—was brutally murdered, a sobering reminder that even courage in the public square can carry a deadly cost….

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