A few years ago, I walked into the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Traspontina, between the Tiber River and the Vatican, and witnessed something pretty rare: a baptism.
Rome has a below-average birth rate for Italy, which has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, itself in the midst of a baby bust.
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