"In addition to catering to Hispanics of all backgrounds and experiences, youth ministry must also appeal to this demographic by trying to answer more complex questions, Padilla said.

"More and more, Latinos my age or younger are not necessarily fine with Catholicism as a cultural thing — it's more like, it has to mean something, it has to give my life purpose. And if they're asking the questions of purpose and meaning, and those answers are not being delivered by their faith or church communities, they will be found elsewhere, and they will move away from the church and the sacraments if we don't connect what faith life as Catholics means to everyday living as young adults."

AS TO the above,  I was pleasantly surprised to find out, during the synod surveys three years ago, that many S. American countries have more than 60% of their Catholic population who want women to be ordained priests.  If we don't start acting like Christians, no one has a reason to become or remain Catholic.