Father has directions for religious leaders (5)
I believe the answer is:
popes
'religious leaders' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'father has directions' is the wordplay.
'father' becomes 'pop ' (pop is a kind of father).
'has' says to put letters next to each other.
'directions' becomes 'Es' (east and south - two directions).
'pop'+'es'='POPES'
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for popes that I've seen before include "Pontiffs" , "Heads of the Roman Catholic church" .)