The United States can offer this nation’s own grim legacy on abortion as an ominous warning to the Irish people.

ICE officials in March announced that more than 500 pregnant women had been detained.

The 23-month-year-old died on April 28 from complications of a degenerative brain condition.

The father of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans called for a truce in a divisive case that has pitted doctors and the British courts against Alfie's parents, Christian groups and Pope Francis. 

A prophetic pro-life stance "has no limits," while an "ideological approach" zeroes in on particulars.

Highlighting the plight of a seriously ill toddler in Great Britain and a severely brain-damaged man in France, Pope Francis called for greater respect for every patient's life and dignity.