A little more than a week has passed since the demonstration in favor of life, women and motherhood that took place on the sunny morning of March 14 in Madrid.

The festive, serene, multicolored joy interspersed with emotional testimonies of the young mothers-courage capable of accepting the newly conceived life in the face of the usual pressures and loneliness, the large family that adopts Javier the most beloved for his Down syndrome, the dialogue between Marta's little daughter with her answer "hello!" to the public..., are, in my opinion, more significant than any count on the issue of attendees. Above all, an impressive family crowd that takes to the streets to show that indeed every human life matters contrasts with the uniform gray color of the "politically correct" that sustains the imposed subculture of death.

In the face of the abortion subculture, Marta, a 17-year-old mother, had testified: "Your child's life is worth everything". Her video has received more than 230,000 entries. It must be for a reason.

During last Wednesday's audience, Pope Francis stressed the importance of children, and among other things he said: "Today I will dwell on the great gift that children are for humanity. It is true. Thank you for applauding. They are the great gift of humanity, but they are also the great excluded, because they are not even allowed to be born". Bergoglio enumerated how much children contribute to the family and to society with their spontaneous, simple, sincere, joyful and tender way of being. Francis did not hide the fact that they can also generate worries and problems, although he pointed out forcefully: "but it is better to have a society with these worries and these problems than a sad and gray society because it has run out of children. And when we see that the birth rate of a society barely reaches one percent, we can say that this society is sad, it is gray because it has run out of children" (Pope Francis: Audience Wednesday, March 18).

This image of a gray society brought to my mind the unforgettable novel written by Michel Ende under the name degree scroll Momo: the girl who spoke little, but listened better than anyone else, so that her whole neighborhood came to tell her their problems. Ende, in one of his dialogues, refers to the "gray men", a caricature of people who are greedy for time, who gradually dispossess others of their illusions and colors and generate a selfish society centered on the absolute value of technocratic efficiency and radical individualism. These unsympathetic characters annihilate people, plunge them into apathy and indifference.

In front of them, the figure of Momo stands out more, who generously dedicates time to others and in his attentive listening gets them to recover their projects and illusions.

In contrast to the prevailing grayness of our politicians and media, which silenced that multicolored celebration that showed the beauty, generosity and tenderness of life, it continues to be a glimmer of hope. Many university students came from San Sebastian and other cities of the Basque Country to demonstrate for life, women and motherhood. This growing presence of young people from year to year is not improvised. It responds to a cultivation of love for human life that requires time, Education and reflexive support also from the university teaching .

Undoubtedly, the sad and gray subculture of death is still predominantly powerful. It has made cowards of the politicians in Spain who had committed themselves to thoroughly modify and even abolish the decriminalization of abortion and backed out for no understandable reason under the ambiguous word "consensus". The ballot boxes will give them their due invoice, but more important, in my opinion, is that daily cultivation that facilitates the understanding of the unrepeatable beauty of every human life linked to the intangible dignity of women and their maternal dimensions. At final I share these concluding words of Benigno Blanco at the end of the demonstration: "In a few minutes we will dissolve and return to our home. But what we have done here does not dissolve or disappear, because each one of us in our place will continue to do the same as we have done here together today: to stand up for life, to show and make visible the unborn, to demand respect for life and to demand and offer support to pregnant women who need financial aid to become mothers".

This daily challenge is also spreading among young university students, so that their actions, apparently small today, will end up shaping another broad pro-life culture in the future. A new humble but effective rainbow is beginning to contrast with the gray uniform of our times.