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3. Any profession that self-selects—the law, medicine, the clergy—inevitably adopts its own peculiar agenda and becomes self-serving rather than providing service to others.  What Fr Ruff & Co. really want is for seminaries to continue to cherry-pick candidates who agree with them in all things, so they can continue to turn out ‘Spirit of V2’ clones like themselves (even though such candidates are getting rarer and rarer).  Anyone potential seminarian who disagrees with them is rigid, spiritually immature, or psychologically imbalanced.  It doesn’t matter that so many Catholics feel ill-served by their protégés:  the profession must call the shots.