[wideawake]

There is, however, a shortage of men who are willing to commit to celibacy as a prerequisite for service.

I know several men who are willing to make that commitment, but have been blackballed from the seminaries because the required psychological profile they had marked them as "rigid" or "intolerant" etc. in their attitudes and therefore unfit for pastoral service.

A strictly orthodox Catholic has to be a very deft conversationalist to get into most seminaries nowadays.

[Aquinasfan]

I know several men who are willing to make that commitment, but have been blackballed from the seminaries because the required psychological profile they had marked them as "rigid" or "intolerant" etc. in their attitudes and therefore unfit for pastoral service.

Me too. Two, to be exact.

[Tantumergo]

"A strictly orthodox Catholic has to be a very deft conversationalist to get into most seminaries nowadays."

Or they need to know someone who can prepare them with the "right" answers before they go through the process.