@rainx My family had every one of those things growing up in the 90s. Except we had the deluxe TV stand that fit a TV up to 27" and had a swing out door on the left for VHS tapes.

One of the guys in my group is a Roman Catholic deacon. Never seen him whip out the crucifix on anyone, even if they were possessed. The thing about this guy is, he's a combat vet, with PTSD and needs the pressure of spiritual warefare as kinda an outlet for those high stress situations. I don't know if you could call that a calling, but I can say he is right where he needs to be. We look out for him, and he looks out for us. I don't know what happened to this guy down in Afghanistan, but it kicked him awake, psychically speaking. Lets see, as far as my dealings with Roman Catholics go, there's a lot of that on my uncle's side of the family, but not so much on mine. Funny enough, my brother and I both got baptized by them. They were never toxic about it. Never felt the psychological need to control us. And back in high school, I had friends in St. Mary's, which was the defacto RC school in the county. Going there was like walking into another world. A lot of the kids there saw us and instantly assumed we were delinquents. I always got the sense that they were scared of me every time I tried to ask them where one of my friends was. Meanwhile you'd have some real delinquents there who didn't even bat an eye. I swear, there was this one prick there who had some serious serial killer vibes. There was always this one teacher who had this gruff scowl, and would just kinda leer at us until we left. A lot of the kinds who went there, whether they stayed RC or not just kinda turned out weird. Like you had some who got married and live seemingly normal, well adjusted lives, but I can't say that for everyone. It's like their pent up desires later manifest in life as weird kinks and fetishes because they just weren't equipped to be able to handle them when they hit the outside world. So I think I would try my chances in the standard schooling system, if you do spawn some gremlins into the mortal plane. At least that exposes them to a diverse enough crowd to become more adaptable to the kinda shit life will later throw at them. Keep in mind though, this was a country bumpkin school, and I'm sure more urbanized RC schools might be able to net your kids those experiences as well.