The Crisis of the Religious 2024, IV (Yearbook 2025)

Redemptorists: There were 9,450 in 1963. In 1973 still there were 7,540. On January 1, 2016, there were already only 5,101. They had lost 47% of what they were.

On January 1, 2017, there were 5,029 left, 72 Redemptorists disappeared, they continue with a 47% decrease.

One year later they continue on the same line. They have lost 19 Redemptorists, 5,010 remain and they continue with a 47% decrease

On January 1, 2020, there were 76 fewer Redemptorists: 4,910. The decrease rises one point: 49%

On January 1, 2021, it was a black year, 127 fewer Redemptorists than a year before, 4,783. They have already lost 50% of their members.

On January 1, 2022, there were 4,685 left, a loss of 98 religious: 51%

On January 1, 2023, they had dropped to 4,634, 51 fewer than a year before – The loss rises one point, 52%

On January 1, 2024, there were 4,568 left, 66 fewer than a year before. The loss remains at 52%

Sacramentines: In 1966 there were 1,641. On January 1, 2016 there were 854 left. With a 45% loss.

On January 1, 2017, there were 876, 22 more than a year before. The decrease reduces to 40%.

On January 1, 2018, they had left seven more religious behind: 869. The lossrises one point: 41%

On January 1, 2019, they had increased no less than 26 religious. Do we believe it? The Annuario gives them 895, so the decrease would have dropped to 39%

On January 1, 2020, they touched losses, eleven Sacramentines: 884. The decrease rises to 40%

On January 1, 2021, there were 883, one fewer than the previous year. They remain at 40%

On January 1, 2022, there were 879 left, 4 fewer than a year before. They remain at 40%

On January 1, 2023, they lose one religious: 878. They remain at 40%

On January 1, 2024, there were 877, they had left only one religious behind. The loss remains at 52%

 

Passionists: 4,350 in 1967. On January 1, 2016, there were 2,039 left, which means a 54% loss. And they continue to worsen because on January 1, 2017, there were already only 1,964 Passionists, seventy-five fewer than the previous year. The loss is already 55%

2017 was excellent because in it they only lost one religious: 1,963. They remain at 55%

Much worse in 2018 when 23 religious left, leaving on January 1, 2019, 1,940. The loss rises to 56%

On January 1, 2020, there were 1,923, 17 fewer than a year before. The decrease rises one point: 57%

On January 1, 2021, they dropped to 1,890, 33 fewer than a year before. They remain at 57%.

On January 1, 2022, there were 1,848, 42 fewer than a year before, 58%

On January 1, 2023, 1,846, two fewer than a year before. They remain at 58%

On January 24, 2024, there were 1,795 left, with a decrease of 51 religious. The loss rises to 59%

 

Divine Word: There were 5,744 in 1966. On January 1, 2016, they had increased considerably and there were 6,003. Astonishing result. On January 1, 2017, they decline somewhat: 5,987 but they continue with extraordinary figures.

Which are maintained on January 1, 2018, when they even increase by 18 religious: 6,005.

On January 1, 2019, they have a slight setback of 7 religious: 5,998.

On January 1, 2020, they reached 6,016, 18 more than a year before, Extraordinary

On January 1, 2021, they left 51 religious behind: 5,965. They are still quite a few more than in 1966

On January 1, 2022, they increase again to 5,997, 32 more than a year ago. Are those results credible?

On January 1, 2023, they drop to 5,833, 114 fewer than a year before. They are still more than in 1966

On January 1, 2024, there were 5,833, the same as a year before and still more than in 1966. Do we believe it?

Spiritans: They had their highest number in 1963: 5,200. On January 1, 2016, they had dropped to 2,845 with a 46% loss. And the situation worsens. On January 1, 2017, they had lost 140 religious compared to the previous year and 2,705 remained. The loss is already 48%.

On January 1, 2018 they increase to 2,756, fifty-one more than the previous year. The loss decreases to 47%.

Another year of spectacular growth in 2018, 36 religious more in these days of widespread hunger. Already 2,792 on January 1, 2019. The decrease remains at 47%

On January 1 2020 they continue rising although now almost imperceptibly, two religious: 2,794. They continue at 47%

On January 1, 2021, the reductions arrived: 2,720, 74 fewer than a year before. The loss rises to 48%

On January 1, 2022, there were 2,680, 40 fewer than a year before. 49%

On January 1, 2023, they return to rises, no less than 55 religious: 2,735. So the decrease drops to 48%

And they continue on that line on January 1, 2024, when they rise to 2,792, 57 more than a year before, the loss at 47%

Discalced Carmelites: There were 3,025 in 1963. On January 1, 2016 there were still 2,027 left, which means a 33% loss%. On January 1, 2017, there were 1,979, forty-eight fewer than a year before. They lose 35%

On January 1, 2018, they had risen to 2,046, sixty-seven more than a year before. Will that rollercoaster be true?. The decrease is 33%

Not as good but very acceptable was 2018 for them in which they increased by 38 friars: 2,084. The decrease drops to 32%

On January 1, 2020, they record a slight loss of 7 friars: 2.077. They remain at 32%

On January 1, 2021, they drop a bit more, 36 friars: 2,041. The loss rises to 33%

On January 1, 2022, 2,000, 41 friars who disappeared. 34%

On January 1, 2023, there are 3 friars disappeared; 1,997. They remain at 34%

On January 1, 2024, there were 1,984, thirteen fewer than a year before. 35%

 

Discalced Mercedarians: They were always very few. In 1973 they were barely 127. On January 1, 2016, only 33 remained. They had lost 75% of the order. One year later, on January 1, 2017, there were two more friars: 35. The loss dropped to 73%

On January 1, 2018, they maintain the 35. Agonizing.

On January 1, 2019, they lost one friar: 34. The decrease rises one point: 74%

On January 1, 2020, another one left them. Now only 33 remain. 74%

On January 1, 2021, they gain one, 34. 74%

On January 1, 2022, they gain two friars, 36. 72%

On January 1, 2023, they remain at 36 and 72%

On January 1, 2024, there were already only 31, 5 fewer than a year before, the loss rises to 76%

 

Parish Cooperators of Christ the King: 70 in 1986. On January 1, 2016, there were 58 left which means a 18% loss. One year later, January 1, 2017, they had lost one religious: there were 57. The loss is 19% but referred to 1986 so it will undoubtedly be greater.

On January 1, 2018, they remain at 57 and 19%.

2018 was a bad year because 2019 dawned with 51 religious, six fewer than a year before, which makes the decrease rise to 28%

On January 1, 2020, they had risen to 55, four more than a year before. The loss drops to 22% but referred to 1986

On January 1, 2021, they gain one, 56. 20%

On January 1, 2022, there were three more religious, 59. 16%

On January 1, 2023, two more religious, 61. 13%

On January 1, 2024, there were 52, 9 fewer than a year before. 26%.

 

Identes; There were 138 on January 1, 2010. On the same date in 2016, there were 117 left. They lost a 16% in ten years.

One year later they remained the same 117.

On January 1, 2018, there were 116, one fewer than a year before. They remain at 16%

On January 1, 2019, they increased by 5: 121. The decrease drops to 13%

On January 1, 2020, they lost four, 117. 16%.

On January 1, 2021, they lose three more, 114. 18%

On January 1, 2022, 113, one fewer than the previous year. 19%

On January 1, 2022, they remain at 113 and 19%.

On January 1, 2024, there were 108, 5 fewer than a year before. 16%

On January 1, 2024: 113, 5 more than a year before: 12%

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