MADRID—On Dec. 30, Archbishop Antonio María Rouco performed two miracles. On a bright winter's day, Madrid's cardinal convened a million people in Plaza Colón to defend the Christian family. They stood in a sea of colored balloons, with children and babies in tow, as he delivered the second: Pope Benedict XVI live by video link-up from the Vatican.
Then, in between songs and prayers, Spain’s bishops lined up to attack the center-left Socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. They spoke of a “great social menace” created by a secular administration and its support for abortion as well as gay marriage and “express divorce”.