Author and filmmaker Jim Wahlberg shares how he overcame life on the streets of Boston, including addiction to drugs and alcohol and multiple prison sentences. He says, “I was in and out of detention centers, foster homes, halfway houses, all by the
For those battling pornography addiction, Jesuit Father Peter Schineller offers hope through St. Ignatius of Loyola, himself a victim of unchaste living in his early life. But St. Ignatius was gifted with a vision of Mary and the Child Jesus, a vision
Once a chief of the Latin Kings gang in Chicago, Deacon Pablo Perez’s life changed the day he left that life. But he still had work to do in reforming his life. “Once I let go and let him take control then
This week, a reader asks if it is OK to be addicted to cell phones or coffee. Monsignor Charles Pope answers that excessive use of phones or materials items, or overconsumption of food or drink can lead to sin. However, addiction can
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said the city’s plan to create a safe drug injection site now that it has the legal go-ahead to do so “is simply the latest dose of despair offered by a confused and
When a federal judge ruled Oct. 2 that Philadelphia’s proposed safe injection site would not violate current law, the court overlooked a few key pieces of evidence. Safe injection sites are not only ineffective at getting people clean, but in the process,
Safe injection sites are "a form of euthanasia," according to a Philadelphia priest who has spent almost 50 years ministering to those suffering from addiction.
Officials are seeking to make Philadelphia the first U.S. city to open a safe injection site, modeled after
Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican Sept. 24 to spend the day with members of an Italian lay community, the young people in recovery they assist and tenor Andrea Bocelli. After listening to three young people's stories of finding the New
While belief in the Real Presence has declined sharply among American Catholics, one ministry is placing the Eucharist at the center of its expanded efforts to combat addiction.
New high school opens and offers treatment centers, recovery, learning in spiritual environment