Sounds a lot like being Punished for Success, like what happens in a lot of toxic business environments.

Those who are the most productive in the work are given more work because they have a record of doing the job well and reliably. The least productive are given less work. So you end up with the best employees burning out and leaving, which leaves the company with the lower performers and new hires. The overall profit of the company nosedive.

I imagine this is what will happen in Steubenville. Priests are transferred to fill positions elsewhere and there are fewer role models and interactions in the areas producing more seminarians.

The number of seminarians plummets, moral decreases, and everything spirals down.