Dystopian fiction

I was thinking, at the mention of Pope Francis, about Robert Hugh Benson's LORD OF THE WORLD. It surprises a lot of people that His Holiness would be a fan of that one. What I always like to note about these books is : What they foresee and what they don't. Orwell foresaw quite a lot about our society, but not the continuing perseverance of religious practice. Huxley could see designer babies but not mobile phones. And we still don't have eau-de-cologne on tap.
A lot of aspects of LORD OF THE WORLD could seem frighteningly real or possible, but according to Benson's vision the Catholic Church's leadership would never go astray , even towards the end. Ireland didn't play a big part in the book but mention was made that the Irish would not give up the Faith, so the population had to be dispersed. He didn't foresee the monarchies of Europe falling over like a pack of cards after the Great War or the remaining royalty being less than exemplary(although it must be said:Liechtenstein's, Belgium's and Luxemburg's heads-of-state seem to remain more religious than the general populations). He didn't think that religious orders or their heads would be the gullible to major apostasy , or cardinals for that matter. Benson certainly didn't think that a pope may be accused of succumbing to unorthodoxy. And, despite what people have been prophesying for decades now, we still don't fly around cities in planes-for-one.