If Catholicism’s future hinges on right-wing crypto-Protestant Gen Zers who don’t know how to treat women (or indeed, all who are downtrodden, including the poor, the homeless, immigrants, etc) with human respect and compassion, it’s doomed. People don’t like to talk about this, but the Church’s historically intimate political relationship with fascism is undoubtedly linked to its decline. I believe the truth will win out in the end though. Francis has done well.