If trad Catholics can't even convince their children not to get tattoos or have piercings all over their bodies then they can't convince them to do anything.

And if we have liberals defending these practices as being legitimate we have people who wish to destroy Catholic Tradition among us.

Answer from a "Resistance" priest in the U.S.:--
"For women ear piercing is no moral issue.  For men, yes.  Tattoos and body piercing are increasing in direct proportion with the return of paganism.  The answer is to strive for greater union with God, Sacraments, and obeying His Commandments."

Tattoos and body piercing are increasing in direct proportion with the return of paganism.

I think we need , or I need a Moral Theologists .  Does anyone know of one who can answer these questions ??

Also I assume there are no tattoo d Souls in Heaven so for those who have done these things have they damnd themselves ?

I recently met a nun, in full habit but with no socks. Her feet were covered in tattoos. I could see places on her face were piercings had closed up. People change.

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Regarding "What is the Catholic teaching on the subject today from the clergy of the three promenate Traditional Groups , SSPX, SSPV, CMRI.

If you are wanting what the Church teaching on the subject is today, you will not get it, in light of the present crisis in authority and teaching. I cannot see the pope coming up with anything of the kind.

Frances has supplied what one "resistance" priest has said, but
the resistance is not the Church.
In like many SSPX is not the Church
CMRI is not the Church
SSPV is not the Church.

So not to get off the main subject , which is , What does the Church teach on ear piercing and Tattoos,  the insertions above will be addressed.  

The Preist s are our Spirtual Fathers here on Earth.  We look for them to instruct us in the Faith to save our Souls.

Now granted in this Unusual time in Church History , there is confusion into what the Church teaches now, and what it has always taught, amongst the Three main groups, to the point that one group will refuse Holy Communion to a Baptised Catholic, in the State of Grace.

The point being since one puts his Salvation in the hand s of one of these groups, he is accenting to their beliefs of Church teachings.

It would be only natural , if a person who had a son or daughter wanted to adhere to one of these pagan rituals, that a Catholic Father would object, get confirmation from his Priest, and if the Priest hadn t the knowledge , to go to his Bishop.

Case in point ear piercing, tattoos

A Priest is trained and educated  in the Seminaries in many Theologies, (I believe 9 to12), one of which is Moral Theology.
 
This being the reason I might ask those who belong to one of the groups to ask their Priest, as I am sure he has run across this in his studies, and has access to the books, which most of us do not.

This thread is not about chastising those who have these markings , or being judgemental , but again ,

“What does the Church teach on Tattoos and Piercing of the Body. “ Is it being enforced , not enforced, Pleasing to God , not Pleasing to God.

"Those who are not with me , are against me"

Ver. 28. Dead. Adonis or Osiris; as if you were mourning for them, in which sense the former verse may be explained. At funerals it was customary to cut off the hair. Achilles and his soldiers did so at the death of Patroclus. (Homer) --- The Persians also cut the manes of their horses, to shew their grief for the loss of Masistius, (Herodotus ix. 24,) as Alexander did when Hephæstion died. (Plutarch) --- The Egyptians, Assyrians, &c., cut their hair on the like occasions, and the Hebrews did so too; whether they neglected this law, or it was rather designed only to hinder them from joining in a superstitious lamentation for some idol. They also cut their bodies, Genesis l, and Jeremias xli. 5. The pagans did so, intending thereby to appease the anger of the infernal deities: ut sanguine....inferis satisfaciant, (Varro, Servius): or to please the deceased. (Plutarch, de consol.) Thus Virgil represents Anna, Æneid iv.: Unguibus ora soror fædans & pectora pugnis. The Roman and Athenian laws restrained this cruelty of women towards themselves. But in Persia, the children and servants of great men still make an incision upon their arms, when their father or master dies. The women in Greece also observe a solemn mourning, with loud lamentations, tearing their cheeks and hair, and reciting the memorable actions of the deceased. The Christians and Jews of Syria inflict still more dangerous wounds upon themselves. The latter have always esteemed it lawful to adopt the customs of the nations with whom they lived, provided they were not attended with superstition; which makes us conclude, that what Moses here forbids, was done in honour of some idol. --- Marks, made with a hot iron, representing false gods, as if to declare that they would serve them for ever. (Philo) --- The Assyrians had generally such characters upon their bodies. Philopator ordered the converts from the Jєωιѕн religion to be marked with ivy, in honour of Bacchus. (3 Macchabees) Theodoret (q. 18,) mentions, that the pagans were accustomed to cut their cheeks, and to prick themselves with needles, infusing some black matter, out of respect for the dead, and for demons. Allusion is made to these customs, Apocalypse xiii. 16, and Isaias xlix. 15. Christians have sometimes marked their arms with the cross, or name of Jesus. (Procopius in Isai. xliv. 5.) (Calmet) --- As St. Jane Frances de Chantal did her breast. (Breviary, August 21.) Nomen pectori insculpsit. St. Paul says, I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body, Galatians vi. 17. The Church historians relate, that St. Francis and St. Catharine received miraculously the prints of his wounds. (Haydock)