Today in Rome, a lay-led "Family Day" was held..

Fr. Z has the quite interesting story:

Today was "Family Day" in Rome and it was a huge, vast, mind-blowing success.  It was lay organized and attended. 

It would have been a success, according to the organizers, had over 100,000 people come to St. John Lateran for the event.

The last report I heard was that over 1.7 MILLION people showed up.

The importance of this event is not merely that when left to their own devices the Italian people will support traditional values in great numbers, giving the lie to the script presented by the intellectuals in the press.  It also means in concrete terms that the traditional values laity can organize and achieve results.

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