The St Patrick's Day celebrations kicked off the outdoor festival season in style and there was a largely positive response ...

The pagan roots of Halloween are well-documented. The holiday is rooted in the Celtic festival of Samhain, which came at summer's end. As Rogers explains, "Paired with the feast of Beltane, which ...

Samhain is even mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature. The Celtic peoples celebrated their New Year on November 1 and, like us with our New Year traditions, spent much of the night ...

Then when most other Christians have forgotten Halloween for another year I continue to pray because Samhain is not necessarily October 31st. While all the Halloween parties and public "Witch Balls" ...