Halloween is a holy day

With all the hullabaloo over Halloween many forget that Oct. 31 is also Protestant Reformation Day. On this day in 1517, a monk named Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses (Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum) on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany. In his theses, Luther displayed his displeasure with what he felt was clergy abuse in the selling indulgences to the poor. Luther felt the sale of indulgences was a violation of the sacrament of confession and penance, and that sinners they could find absolution through the purchase of indulgences - an indulgence being like "time off for good behavior in a sentence" for a sin - was false. Contrition for sin should be genuine, not bought or sold. Ultimately, his act led to a split in the Catholic Church.