December 31, 2007
Massive pro-family demonstration in Madrid
Teresa Polk reports on the pro-family demonstration in Madrid that had a crowd of perhaps 2 million people. As is usual in the media this is described as tens of thousands of people, though even the NYT mentioned an estimate of 1.5 million people. The protest was organized in response to new Spanish laws recognizing homosexual unions and making divorce more readily available and included speeches on pro-life.
Interestingly Pope Benedict XVI spoke via a video screen to the people at the demonstration.
“Founded in the indissoluble union between man and woman, it is the place in which human life is sheltered and protected from its beginning until its natural end,” Pope Benedict said.
I was glad to find that the above picture was not the Pope's speech to the Lilliputians.
Deal Hudson wonders if pro-life leaders here in the United States have ever asked the Pope to do the same thing for the March of Life? That would be great if he did since surely the March of Life contains a lot of Catholics and other churches and groups surely recognize the role the Pope's have played in the pro-life cause.
-pro-family demonstration in Madrid-
They need one. Their replacement rate is something like 1.5 (well below the minimum 2.1). Who's going to support all the old people in forty years?
Worse, I read somewhere on the net that, since the median age in countries like Spain is over forty, there isn't any real hope left in turning the situation around. The window of opportunity is gone.
Adios, Espana!
Posted by Rob email at December 31, 2007 1:52 PMJust dropped by to say Happy New Year to all.
Posted by sister mary martha email at December 31, 2007 3:38 PM"As is usual in the media this is described as tens of thousands of people, though even the NYT mentioned an estimate of 1.5 million people."
If the NYT estimated the crowd at 1.5 million people then half of Europe must have been present given how they estimate the number of people at the March for Life here.
Lol, Mr F!
Posted by joanne email at December 31, 2007 10:09 PMTo be fair to the media, two million people is tens of thousands of people. Specifically, 200 tens of thousands.
In other news, there are thousands of people in Spain and hundreds of people in the world!
Posted by John R.P. Russell email at January 1, 2008 3:42 AMI wish we had such a Pro-Life Movement in Germany. Yet, not a single word about this march in our media.
Last week I have found out that Planned Parenthood also has a German branch. The statements on their website are very outrageous. Their term for unborn children is something like "pregnancy tissue"
We truly need a Blessed 2008!
Posted by Martin email at January 1, 2008 7:12 AMThe Pope would be a great addition to the March for Life since we can't get our "pro life" president to come down the street to it.
Posted by John J. Simmins email at January 2, 2008 2:47 PM