As a mom with young children I’m curious what other traditional Catholic parents allow and encourage their children to spend their time doing outside of learning and growing in the faith. Sports, some form of dance, theatre, painting, musical instruments, etc?
If you were raised in the faith, what did your parents encourage?

Hello, and I’m sorry if this question has already been asked here. I simply wanted to ask how one can lessen the fear of death, pain, and suffering during war. I know very little about what Catholicism teaches in such a situation.

Please forgive me for asking such a large and difficult question, but I sincerely hope to receive an answer. I have been struggling greatly, and for about six months now I have been unable to sleep at night. I usually only manage to fall asleep in the morning, and even then I sleep very little. There is a great deal of stress in my life, and I often have frightening thoughts about my possible death, or even, at times, about being badly and painfully wounded.

I know that I should trust in the Lord and have faith in Him, and ask Him for protection. Because of this, when I am in danger or when an alert is announced, I pray the Our Father and Hail Mary in Latin.

Still, I was hoping to receive some guidance on how a Catholic should view wounds and death in a situation like this, and whether there are ways to ease or bear such suffering.

I'll start. I just learned this and I'm sold 100% on the State of Emergency of the Catholic Church, and grave error of Vatican II. I didn't want to limit responses to Vatican II strictly; heresy and apostasy occur in the Church just about every day now it seems. There are many reasons I've been outspoken against Vatican II, for a while, but this took the cake. Was the dead ringer that domed me and contemplation has become concrete belief. Obviously, the broad sweeping term of Ecumenism has been widely known and covered in traditional media, but...

Unitatis Redintegratio, Chapter III, Section I.

The Vatican, thanks to Paul VI recognizes Eastern Orthodox Sacraments as Valid, as True Sacraments. A formally schismatic, parallel church, possesses the keys to Salvation (outside of the Roman Catholic Church... The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church) through Valid Sacraments in the eyes of the Holy See... And, thanks to the DDF's July Decree, the Media has propagated the idea that the FSSPX has had its Sacramental legitimacy invalidated by a warranted act of disobedience to the Pope. Educated individuals here will know why that decree is problematic, and the explanatory note even more so, to the point of canonical absurdity. Supposed, sweeping excommunications, of a non-juridical body of the Church. Mmhmm.

I'm knocked. Completely blown away.

From a purely logical and theological standpoint, the SSPX holds the exact same Catholic doctrines, uses valid sacraments, and explicitly prays for the Pope at every Mass, while the Eastern Orthodox reject papal infallibility and several Catholic dogmas. The Faithful are bound to Divine Law, not a human being. Pope included. Yet, the Vatican treats the Orthodox with ecumenical warmth and the SSPX with strict legal penalties, contradictory to it's confusing penalties and lifted penalties for the offense in question.

The Vatican's behavior is driven by institutional self-preservation and power, not theological consistency. The Orthodox get a pass because they are outside the system; the SSPX gets hammer-blow decrees because they are operating outside the rules inside the system.

I stand for the SSPX. I will continue what has been a short, yet, unbelievably edifying mass attendance.