August 14, 2025 Issue #35
How America Losing Religion is Hurting the Birth Rate– Newsweek, August 9th https://www.newsweek.com/less-religion-less-babies-declining-birth-rate-2110254#:~:text=Comparatively%2C%20fertility%20rates%20among%20less,DIFS)%20from%202020%20to%202022.
“The number of nonreligious people is growing. Last year, ‘religiously unaffiliated’ people (atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular”) accounted for 29 percent of the national population, according to Pew’s 2024 Religious Landscape Study, which surveyed more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states. This is a 13 percent increase from 2007. “
China Fraces Economic Blow From Population Crisis – Newsweek, August 7 https://www.newsweek.com/china-faces-economic-blow-population-crisis-2109716
“China’s potential output growth could fall to half its 2020s level by mid-century, with a shrinking labor force becoming a structural drag on the world’s second-largest economy, warns a new report.”
Catholic family experts tie marriage to US fertility rate – Institute for Family Studies, August 10 https://ifstudies.org/in-the-news/catholic-family-experts-tie-marriage-to-dropping-us-fertility-rate
“’One of the biggest drivers of the American fertility drop is the decline of marriage,’ Leah Libresco Sargeant, who has written about family policy and is the author of several books, including an upcoming book called ‘The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto,’ told Our Sunday Visitor News in emailed comments.”
Pope Leo Should Tell Catholics: Marry young have many children – The Washington Times, August 10 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/pope-leo-tell-catholics-marry-young-many-children/
Once, Catholicism was synonymous with large families. Today, Catholic countries in Europe and Latin America are leading the death march into the depths of demographic winter. In Poland, the fertility rate is 1.3. In Spain and Chile, it’s 1.2.
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