Includes bibliographical references and index.

A manmade crisis : why Archbishop Curtiss said the priest shortage is "artificial and contrived" -- Stifling the call : how for some men the road to ordination is cut short before it really begins -- The gatekeeper phenomenon : how good men are often screened out during the seminary application process -- The gay subculture : how homosexual politics discriminates against healthy, heterosexual seminarians -- The heterodoxy downer : how false teaching demoralizes and discourages the aspiring priest -- Pooh-poohing piety : how traditional expressions of the faith often disqualify the orthodox seminarian -- Go see the shrink! : how psychological counseling is used to expel the good man from his seminary -- The vocational inquisition : how the orthodox seminarian is identified and persecuted -- Confronting the obstacles : one good man traces his tortuous route to ordination -- Heads in the sand : how complaints about the poor state of seminaries have gone unanswered -- A self-fulfilling prophecy : how a death wish for the male, celibate priesthood created an artificial priest shortage -- The right stuff : how to live up to the church's expectations for seminary life -- Where the men are : why orthodoxy begets vocations (or, How to learn from successful dioceses and seminaries).