Trick-or-Treating is a gateway activity that leads to other forms of sacrilege.

or directly to #2. Gluttony

hmmm candy (brought a bag of candy at work and can't stop eating them)

...I recall christianity having a long history of over-shadowing of their own....

My Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is sacrilicious!!

Maybe, but certainly your jew-jew-bees are.

This isn't really a surprise, is it?

I don't really pay attention to what Emperor Palpatine- err...The Pope has to say.

No, but it's always fun to point and laugh at the pope

Would pay good money for a Pope outfit, a industrial size tub of lube and a bottle of Jack now.

Best Halloween costume ever

Not the Pope, a Vatican official. Also, thank you for your absurdly blatant, unsubstantiated, personal attack against him.

This is what was said:
As it is surrounding a Holy Day, focusing on things such as murder, what is essentially celebration of demons, and watching fare such as Saw and Halloween, is absolutely un-Christian. I don't see how that could be denied. I think this is reasonable, and it's not telling you non-Christians to do this stuff, he (the Vatican official) is speaking to Catholics.

I don't see the problem.

EDIT: There, I fixed it for you.

Wow. I havent been here long, but I had no idea that higher ranked people could change a joke in someones link description just because they disagree with it.
I do understand why the Pope (or 'Vatican Official', it's all the same anyway) would condemn Halloween as it is today. But for those of us who aren't Catholic, it's good for a laugh.

The Pope.

Along with most of the churches, he's so out of touch.

"try to direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death"

Umm, that is what Wiccans DO on this holiest of days. Samhain is the day that the veil between worlds is thinnest, and we can speak with our departed loved ones, and visit them for a little while.

It is also a marker for the change of seasons, entering the dark time of the year. Then the Horned God sacrifices himself in the Hunt, and the Sun is reborn for another year.

Ooooh, scary!

For a news link, accuracy is preferred. It didn't read like a joke to me, though. People like to take jabs at the pope, but it was particularly mean-spirited and incendiary in this usage. If I was really upset about it, I wouldn't have quoted it. And all you have to do is click "edit". Anyone can do it.

I'm fairly certain it's a huge no-no to edit another user's comments, even if you are offended by them.

That's funny, I just was researching Halloween for a random speech-making class and Pope Gregory the first was the one to integrate Samhain celebrations into christian practices, on purpose.
The celtics celebrated the deceased, sure, but only through honoring them so they wouldn't cause trouble when the world of the living and the world of the dead overlapped, as it was believed they did.

Sooooo, it's the Christians' fault that halloween is asscociated with evil and murder, just cuz they were pussies and were scared of the Celts and their rituals. It wasn't originally an "evil" holiday. So the Pope can just deal with it.
Research your own history, pope dude.

I thought it was respected to put an unbiased, neutral description and then your own opinion in post number 1...I thought it was looked down upon to put your opinion in the description.

Really? Because when you look through the posts here there are plenty of descriptions that are humorous, reflective of the poster etc.

I had no idea there were pope worshippers who would be offended by it

From a strictly Pavlovian viewpoint, my experience is that some degree of subjectivity and one's own words are rewarded with more upvotes than those posts which used only excerpts from the article.

I don't know if they still do it, but when I was growing up I loved the annual Dubious Achievement awards from Esquire magazine. Their format was to make the headline the punchline, and the set-up was the news bite that followed.

This is not an obviously humorous description. It's a hit piece on the Pope. I do not worship the Pope, but I'd prefer that you posted your opinion in the comments (like most of us do) and not in the description. That way I can upvote the link if I like it and not be torn between upvoting it or not because of the description.