I think there is a change in the wind. It won’t be back to pre-Vatican II; it won’t be BACK to anything. I hear wonderful things from Kenya and Uganda. I see wonderful things in the Dominican studentate and elsewhere.
Yes, the touchy-feelies will hang on. Some.— like Pelosi, Biden, Kaine — will betray us. But I think the Church is rising from sleep.
Pope Francis will have to go away before that and will have to be replaced by an actual Catholic.