Many communities are no longer practicing church traditions properly. There is a lack of joy. There is fundamentalism. People are unsure what the priests should be doing. People are questioning the nature of celibacy and the reason for it.
Priests get little support from their environment.
Yet, in the midst of all this there is still an interest in religious and spiritual issues. Formation within seminaries has tried to keep up with these new developments. The importance of the seminary setting for priestly formation is increasingly recognized. The Tridentine model of seminary exists only in a few cases. There is a new post-Vatican 11 seminary which gives seminarians room for individual determination within the seminary.