I will admit the growth in Catholicism is very interesting to me, especially the right wing “tradcath” phenomenon by which people seem to be joining the Catholic Church because it’s the “based” thing to do, and then they commit some of the most basic heresies of the Catholic Church that one could possibly think up.
As someone raised Catholic, you kinda pinned the tail on the donkey with this one. Many older Catholics kinda hate how progressive the church has become and a lot of the converts are similar (but like, why the fuck come here if you hate it???). Still, a lot of older Catholics are quite progressive and follow the Pope and most of the Gen X through Gen Z cradle Catholics tend to be pretty progressive