Those who answer “yes” to the question posed in the title usually seem to take it for granted that we will somehow always have a majority liberal-progressive Church in which trads are an “insignificant minority,” fighting an impossible uphill battle, doomed to lose.
But this is patently absurd. The liberals are undermining themselves in all kinds of ways. Their worldview is self-destructive and does not promote real buy-in to any coherent form of Catholicism (as we can see very evidently with the parodistic and parasitic “synod on synodality”). All the statistics in the West are showing decline—demographic implosion from the lack of offspring, church closures, consolidations, inadequate vocations, drifting and apostasy. Sociologists of religion have frequently pointed out that liberalization diminishes commitment, while reaffirmation of core principles and practices strengthens it. In a few decades, the only Catholics left will be (broadly speaking) traditional ones. Just consider the Amish, who are poised to overtake all the mainline Protestant branches, simply by quietly growing, growing, growing.
It may very well be the case that some kind of giant empty mollusk of bureaucracy, a German Church or a Synodal Church or whatever, may, decades from now, still be lurching along the path of its own slime, or, like a cockroach, fail to perish in the nuclear winter, but it will not be the Church of Christ recognizable to believers—or even to a half-alert sociologist—by its continuity of doctrine, morals, and worship.
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