Even for those who do not embrace Jesus as Lord, or those who decide they prefer another demnomination of Christianity, there is much in Christian philosophy which can make a culture a place to thrive.
If His Holiness can get those who are not Catholics to at least become more Christian in their worldview, then he has made the world a better place for Catholicism as well, and not just Catholics (or Christians) will benefit.
While the Church may be authoritarian in respect to the faithful, it can only color the secular government, not replace it.
It also values the family, and the heirarchy within it, and uses that to reinforce its own spiritual hegemony.
That basic building block, the family unit, is in any free culture the governmental molecule by which greater governments are formed.
In socialist cultures, the State is to be all, mother, father, and for Socialism to succeed requires the destruction of that family unit and the loyalties which bind it. Otherwise, the State will always play second fiddle to familial ties, and, where applicable, rank a distant third to God.
This is why there has been an all-out assault on both Christianity and the family by the Socialist Left in the U.S. Formerly soft spoken and behind the scenes, it has moved into the limelight and is shrilly screaming its demands seeking to accelerate the fulfillment of its agenda.
I believe that impatient shrillness to be a critical tactical error, as it has provoked a backlash against the destruction of the institutions which have been the foundations of American culture.
How often God must weep at humans' folly