“Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of ‘Halloween’ placed in front of our sacred grounds,” he wrote.

“I acted according to my faith and duty to be a father and protector of the children entrusted to me and removed these symbols,” said Father Smejkal, parish priest at the Roman Catholic Church of St John the Baptist.

He added that in his view the modern tradition of Halloween had been conceived in a “heathen, contemporary world”, as a counterbalance to the Catholic feast of All Souls’ Day.
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Father Smejkal said it had not been his intention to harm anyone, especially not children.

“But try to remember that my duty as a figure of authority and a priest is to protect children and families from hidden evil,” he went on.

They must have edited around the apology part because all I’m seeing is “I did the right thing according to the nonsense in my head about a magical sky father”