It's Halloween season. You may have noticed that by walking on the streets near your home and encountering those all-too-familiar garish orange-and-black decorations. Then again, maybe you have visited stores with shelves packed with bags and bags of candy and scary kids' costumes.
This is also a time when some Catholic churches advertise Halloween get-togethers or parties for children and their families. That's a reminder that Halloween and religion aren't such strange bedfellows.
It's also the time when newspapers and websites start rolling out those often predictable Halloween stories. The reason for this is two-fold.
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