May 3, 2021 catholic news service
A woman wearing a mask for protection from COVID-19 plays with a child in Rome in this Oct. 13, 2020, file photo. Pope Francis is scheduled to open a May 14 meeting discussing the challenges posed by Italy's low birth rate. (Credit: Yara Nardi/Reuters via CNS.)
Pope Francis is scheduled to open a meeting discussing the challenges posed by Italy's low birthrate.
ROME — Pope Francis is scheduled to open a meeting discussing the challenges posed by Italy’s low birthrate.
“For more than a decade, Italy has become an increasingly elderly and less populated country, suffering from structural and legislative shortcomings at the fiscal, economic and social level,” which have all exacerbated a drop in births, according to a press release about the meeting.