I am sorry, but if you think church attendance is up, as a whole in the US you are in denial. Every study done on the subject is very clear, and attendance has been dropping for decades across the board. Belief that this is limited to Catholic Churches is pure ignorance.
Within 5 a miles radius of my house there have been dozens of church closings, and the reason for all are declining attendance and financial inability to operate due to it. Lutheran, Methodist, Episcapalian, Presbyterian, etc etc. I can walk into nearly any church around me on any Sunday morning and find a building built 50-100 years ago to house several hundred to a thousand worshippers that would have been filled when built to have no more than a few dozen to a few score attending now, and the majority of those who are attending are over 60.
Trying to blame this on specific events in Catholicism and to deny the larger issue is frankly being ignorant.
The largest denomination in the US is the Roman Catholic Church by numbers, and the second largest of it were one would be non practicing Roman Catholics, by the numbers. Like it or not, people not going to church any longer is a universal problem in the US, to try to claim it’s purely one denomination and it’s issues is simply ignorance.
Yet to my surprise and I kid you not, in the Amish country in eastern PA there a play about Jesus that has been doing bigtime success with performances sold out until end of September. Amazing.