I went to a mainstream seminary that touted itself as conservative but not traditional.  There, we had a Monsignor from South America who taught us canon law, and he was admittedly quite traditional.  He told us one day in class that back in Peru, there were no vocation directors.  Msgr. explained that good priests spiritually inspired young men to become priests.  If a lazy parish priest did not get vocations from their parish, he got sent to the hinterlands.  I liked this plan, but even in seminary I recognized that this sounded like the opposite of North America, namely, where good priests get sent to the hinterlands. In any case, [...]