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Report: America nearing 'demographic dead end' as birth rates sink

EWTN News|Jul 9, 2026|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV greets a family as he celebrates the final Mass of his apostolic journey to Africa at Malabo Stadium in Equatorial Guinea April 23, 2026. (OSV News photo/Matteo Pernaselci, Vatican Media)

Pope Leo's October meeting on marriage, family gains urgency amid declining birth rates in West

OSV News|Apr 27, 2026|7 Min Read

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U.S. births declined slightly in 2025, CDC reports

EWTN News|Apr 9, 2026|3 Min Read

Brad Wilcox, Melville Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Director of National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Brad Wilcox)

Amid plunging births, scholar says parenthood needs to be touted as ‘pathway to happiness’

Madalaine Elhabbal|Jul 26, 2025|3 Min Read

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Not enough people understand why falling birth rates are bad

Heather King|Aug 16, 2024|4 Min Read

Pro-life

World's ills rooted in too much greed, not too many babies, pope says

Carol Glatz|May 10, 2024|4 Min Read

Birth

Fertility decline a complex trend beyond any one policy solution, economists say

Kate Scanlon|May 7, 2024|3 Min Read

Fertility

World

Catholic economist on dropping fertility rates: Change hearts, not just policies

Maria Wiering|Apr 3, 2024|6 Min Read

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In the family way

Robert Brennan|Aug 26, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Francis blesses the womb of a pregnant woman during a meeting with new members of the Swiss Guard ahead of their swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican May 6, 2022. In a message sent May 12, 2022, to participants of a conference in Rome, Pope Francis said declining birth rates in Italy and Western countries are "impoverishing everyone's future." (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Declining birthrates impoverish future, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves|May 12, 2022|2 Min Read

A sign showing a stork carrying a newborn baby advertises the services of a midwife near Laufen, Germany, in 2018. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

How liberty failed fertility

Grazie Pozo Christie|Jun 16, 2021|4 Min Read

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Sharp decline in U.S. birthrate worrying to Church leaders

John Lavenburg|May 7, 2021|6 Min Read

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