Report: Vast Majority of Religious Institutes Had No One Professing Perpetual Vows in 2025

Report: Vast majority of religious institutes had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025

A Georgetown report reveals most religious institutes in the U.S. had no one making perpetual vows in 2025. The large majority of religious institutions in the U.S. reported they had no one professing perpetual vows [...]

Report: Vast majority of religious institutes had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025 - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

The large majority of religious institutions in the U.S. reported they had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025, a new report found. Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) found in its report, “Women and Men Professing Perpetual Vows in Religious Life: The Profession Class of 2025,” that 82% of religious institutions had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025. About 1 in 10 institutes said they had one…

This is what religious with perpetual vows in the USA are like, according to the CARA 2025 survey - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Rome, 01.27.2026).- At a time when religious life in the United States is often described in terms of aging communities and shrinking numbers, a new national study offers a more nuanced portrait—one that combines demographic realism with signs of enduring vocational vitality. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Georgetown University’s research arm for Catholic life, has released its annual survey of women and …