The Sheriff (in my post, a few posts up) symbolizes "laying down the law, putting the kibbosh on something which is unacceptable."
Whether that something is acrid smoke blowing towards a trailer park, a dog in a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament, or a superstitious, bullying apostate in charge of the formation of seminarians.
Any excuse which tends to permit these unacceptable things is fluff, lame, and needs to be popped.
This could be applied to Pablo's ongoing presence at OLMC.
Fr. Pfeiffer could give excuses: "We don't have enough priests to run the seminary without Pablo. We are often gone to say Mass at mission chapels. We don't have another such volunteer."
"The Sheriff" would respond: "Ok, no problem. Just shut down your seminary, send the seminarians home, and you can re-open when you have adequate staff (cleric and lay) to run a seminary. Have a nice day!"
The excuse giver always comes back with a dressed up version of "But I don't wanna!" in a whiny voice. They want their will, even though their desires are for something unacceptable.