I think the Church now knows that many infiltrators were placed in the seminaries in order to implode the Catholic Church.
I have observed that the most innocent and honest men are often the most easily fooled because they cannot imagine the duplicity and cupidity that exist in others.
I hope and pray that this increase in candidates is true and that good men now feel "safe" in becoming a priest. How sad that many good men may have left the seminary, or not even gone into a seminary, because of the gay take-over. We can only hope that they will continue to be vigilant about who is accepted and that there will then continue to be an increase in the number of men wanting to be priests.