It seems more likely that the young have seen that the emperor and princes of the church wear no clothes. 

The PTB have attempted - fairly successfully  until the modern era - to convince people that they literally speak for God, that they can read God's mind.  IOW, making God into their own image - equating an institution, an office (the papacy), and bishops with God.  They have the arrogance (and hubris) to claim that they speak infallibly, when only God is infallible. 

Unfortunately for them, the "simple faithful" are no longer so simple in most of the world in the 21st century. Unlike in earlier eras, they are literate, educated, and have access to unlimited resources to educate themselves specifically in theology, church history, science, sociology, archeology, etc.   The Enlightenment and Reformation were the first evidence of the breakdown of the RCC's claims.  The signs continue. It is not only the young who are becoming "nones", but their parents who are joining the "dones".