They are still failing. But, that is old news. It has almost always been thus. It is easy to fault others;the Prelates and Clerics,but, the Christian truth is it is Christian parents who have the initial and primary duty to Catechize their children
One MAJOR failing of the Church in America is the way it became Clericalized to the point of destruction; from lack of Catechetical Instruction to the introduction and acceptance of queerdom, to the feminization of Christian men. The "greatest generation" failed in their Christian Catholic duties every bit as much as did the Clerics and Prelates of that generation but we have all been raised to be good liberals and so we blame others.
"...the Christian truth is it is Christian parents who have the initial and primary duty to Catechize their children"
Exactly right but Catholic home education is usually thwarted on the parish and diocesan level reflecting teacher's union infiltration in the parochial system and parish life.
That is an excellent point. So many times discussions about the state of the Church these days turn into a bashing of baby boomers (who already get bashed enough in political discussions) and a bashing of Vatican II. But in my experience and from what I've read about the changes in the Church, it really was the WW2 generation and the folks in between them and the boomers that seemed to cause the most destruction in the American church. Baby boomers were just kids when Vatican II was going on. It was older folks who misinterpreted the council, and it was older folks who sat by silently and let so many of our traditions be tossed out in the trash (sometimes literally). Returning to the Tridentine Rite is not a panacea, because these people were born, catechized, and sometimes ordained well before the council. Heresy can hide quite easily under the surface of Tridentine piety.
They failed at a lot more than Catechesis. By not being sure that the Traditional devotions were there, some of the deep seated essentials weren't learned.