[VidMihi]

Obviously we do not know all the answers, but I do not think “orthodoxy” has anything to do with it. I have been told by relatives of ex-seminarians that a “gay culture” and being hit on were the reasons many heterosexuals left the seminaries. On grandmother said her grandson tried the seminary twice, and left both times for the same reason.
I was not there, I do not know. I only know what most Catholics will acknowledge, and that is that a very large number of their priests are gay. It also seems that many women like the gay priests - they are kind, neat, easy to talk to,share many of their interests etc. In a word they are everything their husbands are not.

[cothrige]

Yes, that sounds believable, but I do recall reading a book, Goodbye, Good Men perhaps, which presented a rather compelling case for a very heterodox selection process which sought to weed out undesirables, which included traditionally minded and orthodox catholic men. I recall also reading comments from priests on various boards and blogs describing a culture of dissent prevalent in seminaries which would label any who were too critical of liberal or unorthodox ideas, or who would promote tradition or orthodoxy too strongly, as "unpastoral" and would then push them out. A gay culture certainly, but also very, very heterodox.