SALEM -- "I don't have witchcraft," declares Father Tom DiLorenzo. "I have prayer power!" It was Oct. 25, and Father DiLorenzo was preaching on the sidewalk of Essex Street in Salem, surrounded by ...

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A self-proclaimed socialist is on track to become New York City's next mayor.

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Demons, by contrast, were almost always malevolent tricksters who served the Devil. Demons lacked knowledge of what it meant to be human. Hell was the demons’ lair. Early modern texts describe them ...

As you put the finishing touches on your costume and stock up on candy for the neighborhood kids, let's take a minute to reflect on the origins of these and other Halloween traditions. 1. Who started ...

Halloween is a hybrid of mythologies and histories born of both resistance and oppression, joy and mourning, life and death.

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“From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the ...