The Tablet May 7, 2021 (Photo: Pixabay) NEW YORK — When Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodríguez of Denver moved to the U.S. from Europe, one thing that made the country “exceptionally beautiful” to him was the number of families with multiple children spending time together, a distinction he fears might be slipping away. Bishop Rodríguez’s concern stems from a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics published earlier this week. It shows that the number of births in the U.S. last year declined for the sixth consecutive year, to 3,605,201 — a four percent drop from 2019 and the lowest number since 1979.