Report: Most religious institutes had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025

A large majority of religious institutions in the U.S. reported they had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025. Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate has found. Eighty-two percent of religious institutions had no one professing perpetual vows in 2025. About 1 in 10 institutes said they had one perpetual profession, while 8 percent said they had anywhere from two to nine members professing perpetual vows in 2025, according to the report. Overall, responding religious institutes reported 179 total perpetual vows, 74 women and 105 men, last year.