‘A crisis of the heart’ - Religious vocations directors look to the future

“We needed to think outside the box.”

There was a time — back in the decade when Pope Leo XIV entered the Augustinian order — when American men in religious life outnumbered diocesan priests, and by a wide margin.

But those days in the U.S. are gone. Long gone.

Dominican friars of the St. Martin de Porres province. Courtesy photo.

Across the country, many men’s religious orders have struggled …