Addiction

The Field Hospital: Funeral Mass for 9/11 first responder; tackling addiction in West Virginia and Pittsburgh; Latino foster parents sought in LA; civil penalties target sanctuary sites.

The Field Hospital: Catholic bishops defend those fearing deportation; closed parishes become low-income housing; serving the poor in a gentrifying neighborhood.

The Field Hospital: "Walking and Witnessing for Immigrant Families" planned in Seattle; Knights of Columbus lend a hand in Arkansas and Florida; faith communities respond to addiction.

NCR Connections: We on the outside of hierarchical culture for years have used a phrase to express the central issue: "They don't get it." Which morphed into: "How can it go on this long, and they still don't get it?"

There is a rarely-discussed truth among us parents of three or more children. In general, we just seem to relax the more kids we have. But there is no possibility for complacence when your child struggles with addiction. 

College roundup: Enrollment falls short at SLU, but fundraising is up; Georgetown Medical honors director of drug abuse institute; Catholic University mourns student's death.

As dawn breaks in this bustling capital city of 1.5 million people, Pastor Moses Mugisa treks along a main road, carrying his Bible as he heads to the streets to meet young people abusing drugs.

A trained social worker, Montfort Fr. Francis Pizzarelli has a long tenure as a celebrant in local parishes in Suffolk County, where there were 360 opioid overdoses in 2016, more than two and a half times the number in 2010. He has been ministering to people affected by addiction and other crises, through Hope House since 1980.