Don Rodrigo Ruiz Velasco y Barba recently published this very interesting article:
"The Debacle of the Religious." I take the essential data from historian Francisco José Fernández de la Cigoña, who in turn takes them from the Pontifical Yearbook (2025):
Jesuits: In 1965 there were 36,038; in 2024 there were 13,995.
Salesians: In 1967 there were 22,810; in 2024 there were 13,605.
Franciscans: In 1963 there were 27,136; in 2024 there were 11,984.
Benedictines: In 1963 there were 12,131 monks; in 2024 there were 6,382.
Capuchins: In 1963 there were 15,849 friars; in 2024 there were 9,794.
Dominicans: In 1963, there were 10,150; in 2024, there were 5,369.
Lazarists: In 1969, there were 6,284; in 2024, there were 3,033.
Augustinians: In 1967, there were 4,548; in 2024, there were 2,340.
Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists): from 1,967 in 1966; in 2024, there were 962.
Carthusians: In 1967, there were 602; in 2024, there were 272.
Clerics of St. Viator: There were 1,968 in 1967; in 2024, there were 374.
Somascans: In 1959, there were 360; in 2024, there were 533.
Theatines: There were 164 in 1973; in 2024 there will be 171.
Claretians: There were 4,128 in 1966; in 2024 there will be 2,966.
Oblates of Mary Immaculate: There were 7,890 in 1966; in 2024 there will be 3,478.
Jerome Friars: There were 35 in 1974; in 2024 there will be 7.
Augustinian Recollects: There were 1,580 friars in 1967; in 2024 there will be only 929.
Overall, from 153,640 who were once friars, we have dropped to 76,194 in recent times. The reduction is around 50%, in a much more populated world (more than double the population in 1967). Calles will be Congratulations (perhaps in hell*), but he was wrong: the way to achieve that goal was not open persecution."
*NOTE ON CATHOLICITY: There are those who claim that Plutarco Elías Calles died repentant and confessed.
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