“Midnight Mass”imagines a world where Catholicism is both an anchor and agitation. In some ways it feels like a throwback to the world that received “The Exorcist” in 1973.

In fact, “Midnight Mass” creator Mike Flanagan has statedthat Catholic ritual and vampirism are “explicitly linked. You are dealing with a mythology that is steeped in blood ritual and ...

A version of this story about “Midnight Mass” and creator Mike Flanagan first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap magazine. After using Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill ...

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Just as Midnight Mass tries to criticize the didactic musings of the Catholic Church, he himself stumbles into those waters through exceptionally long monologues in every episode.

In Midnight Mass, the Catholic religion and addiction are interchangeable – Riley and Joe Collie may be the island's recovering alcoholics whose addictions caused them to seriously harm people ...

Midnight Mass did not provide many answers about its take on an angel. But the Bible the show took its story from provides all the answers we need.

Her family now attends a 5 p.m. Mass on Christmas Eve, but has started considering going back to midnight Mass in memory of her father. “Most of the time, he would sit between my brother and I ...

“Midnight Mass” also justifies itself as a creature of multiple episodes. Not every series does. Despite the hints being dropped from the outset, the supernatural elements of the story don’t ...

Midnight Mass traditions began during a time when Catholics fasted from midnight until they received Holy Communion, said Chicoine, who is also pastor of Catholic churches in Atlantic and Anita.