Edited sentence: : The Unholy Subversion of Priestly Formation, published in 1990, was the first book to postulate that for Catholic bishops to destroy the Catholic Church, they would have to begin by destroying and eliminating the Catholic priesthood starting with orthodox seminarians.Another book that discusses this topic is Are Today's Seminaries Catholic.Pope Benedict XVI said on 11 September 2006 in Altötting, Germany, that he is sad over this situation in the Roman Catholic Church.Rose claims that orthodox seminary applicants may be discriminated against and turned away in many American dioceses.The 1980s and 1990s saw drops in the number of priests, a trend which has been reversed in the 21st century, which has seen moderate growth in priest numbers.The number of Catholic priests is now increasing worldwide, but there have been small declines in figures for Europe and the Americas.With regard to the USA, in the book Goodbye, Good Men,  Michael S