They already recognize it.
But they still hold onto some hope. Although they themselves don’t believe it.
They killed consecrated life, which now has no future other than disappearance except in very few cases attached to traditional ways.
In a not too distant future, there will be no Jesuits, Franciscans, Dominicans, Salesians, Claretians, Benedictines… Just as they will have closed down almost all of the female congregations.
They recognize the proximity of the end although they still do not recognize the suicide that everyone, men and women, committed. And which they refuse to recognize and denounce.