Halloween 2024 Catholic Review. As much as today’s version of halloween has become commercialized with. Halloween has origins in the catholic liturgical calendar, he said, but the customs surrounding it have “drifted from the feast’s intended meaning and purpose.”.

The holy day of obligation was meant to consolidate the various christian festivals throughout the holy roman empire that. While some people have connected halloween to earlier pagan celebrations of the new year, halloween actually has significant catholic roots.