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Maybe in 2028, there will be more than 3 ordained priests that come from this class.

If my memory is right, my class that entered in Fall 1988 was 21 men. Ladislaus may be able to verify.

Was it fall of 1988 or 1989?  I graduated High School in 1986, went to college, found Tradition there, and an accelerated my degree to finish in 3 years + a summer session so that I could enter the seminary.  So I would have entered in Fall of 1989.  But, yes, that class was 21.  How many finished though?  Was it 4?

We didn't have the "Humanities year" either.  I think that helps inflate the numbers.  That's a year of half-college, half-seminary where you're discerning your vocation.  Not necessarily a bad idea, but I would imagine that a huge number drop out after that first year because they're not "all in" as it were.  In the past, when you went in at all, you were pretty serious about it already vs. just exploring (two completely different mindsets).  Only 12 actually received tonsure last Spring, so numbers very similar to when we had plenty of room in Winona.

I've been underwhelmed by the priests ordained the past 7-8 years by SSPX.  It's also almost as if they're clones of one another, with very similar personalities and temperaments.  In the older days, boy did you have some characters who were ordained to the priesthood.  But now they seem to come out of some cookie-cutter mold.

I think that a large part of the problem is that a lot of them are cradle Trads and didn't have to fight the fight against the Modernists and the NO, when the destruction of V2 was fresh in everyone's minds.  To many of them, the NO is just an idea, something they weren't exposed to.  That's why I believe that a lot of the priests being ordained shows signs of being infected by Modernism.  It's as if they have the attitude of 1950s Catholics, who are already ripe for the picking when V2 came along.