"The labels (pro-choice and pro-life) don't quite tell the full story."

The couple said, “I do” Thursday morning after telling Francis that they had been married in a civil service in 2010.

n a message of support for the March for Life in Washington, a Vatican official praised "the tens of thousands" of participants for their witness to the "value of every human life".

The stresses of the job hit rural priests particularly hard.

"You are the new Magi in our time, who teach us all to keep our heads up, and amid the darkness of the night at times, to take heart that God is still in the heavens, guiding us like that Bethlehem star."

Pope Francis has visited other prisons, but this was the first time on his travels as pope that he visited one just for women. He was greeted by women standing with their babies in their arms.