Recognizing and fostering "the marvellous reality of the indissoluble marriage between man and woman", is "one of the greatest services which can be rendered nowadays to the common good and to the authentic development of individuals and societies, as well as the best means of ensuring the dignity, equality and true freedom of the human person". 
A huge family rally in Spain on the Sunday after Christmas got minor coverage in the international media but sent an unmistakable message to a Spanish government that has legalised homosexual "marriage", mandated pro-homosexual instruction in schools and made divorce easier. According to organisers, more than one-and-a-half million people gathered in central Madrid, where they heard speeches from church leaders and other public figures.
Pope Benedict addressed the Family Encounter (Encuentro de las Familias) in a live video link, saying that the family "founded on the indissoluble union between man and woman … is the place in which human life is sheltered and protected from its beginning until its natural end." The pope also said it was "worthwhile to fight for the family and marriage because it is worthwhile to work for the human being, the most precious thing created by God."
Spain has one of the world's lowest birth rates, thanks, in part, to an abortion rate that has climbed to over 100,000 annually since legalisation in 1985. In the last month the Spanish media has reported numerous cases of illegal late-term abortions, and one channel actually broadcast footage of two such procedures. Several abortion clinics in Madrid and Barcelona have been shut down and several doctors and clinic personnel are being prosecuted.
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