Er, no they didn't

Yes, this was listed without comment as part of a regular feature at the news site Baptists Today:

Vatican condemns Hallowe'en as anti-Christian

That headline and story compose one, long error. The fact that a story is in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, does not make the contents of the story Vatican policy. And as tmatt writes at GetReligion

Read the story and see if you can find any material that is actually from the Vatican.

None.

*poof* - CBN's strange 'evil candy' story disappears

Counterfactual and theologically off the map, CBN's story claiming "most" Halloween candy was bewitched in the worst way has, without benefit of a cloud of smoke, disappeared.

Thanks to Tommy Christopher at MediaIte, a Southern Baptist minister laid out the facts. Dr.Thomas Howe, Dean of Apologetics and Professor of Biblical Studies at the Southern Evangelical Seminary told Christopher that with regard to “time-release curses,” demon orgies, demonic candy and the like:

“None of (this is) considered main stream Christian beliefs. Beliefs in curses is occultic, not Christian. I am not aware of any evidence supporting any of these claims about Halloween, neither do I subscribe to the notion of a demonic trinity. This is not found anywhere in the Bible, and it is not a historic Christian doctrine.”

Amen.

Briefly: H1N1 protection for Trick or Treaters