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 men who professed perpetual vows in 2025 within religious institutes, provinces, or monasteries based in the United States.
More than four in five responding superiors (82%) said their communities had no perpetual professions at all last year. Only 10% reported a single new member making final vows, while just 8% recorded between two and nine.
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