![]() ![]() From police to COVID: ‘Disrupting state-sanctioned violence’ It is a sentiment echoed by Black Lives Matter organisers across the country as they reflect on a year that has brought much pain, but also numerous achievements, and as they chart their priorities moving into 2021. Seeing protesters gather day-after-day “makes me know that what happens in this part of resistance work and fighting for our freedom, and this continual process of seeing people develop these spaces, that we’re doing exactly what we need to do,” Helm said. The protests often bring people from Black Lives Matter, Louisville Urban League, Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and other groups. The groups sometimes number in the hundreds other times, only a few gather in a downtown park, renamed by protesters as “Injustice Square”. Protesters, organisers and activists have gathered in some form on most, if not all, of the more than 200 days since then. In this file photo from May 29, people gather in the street during a protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police and George Floyd by Minneapolis police, in Louisville, Kentucky It was a night that shook Louisville, and for protesters, it was only day one. Many people suffered injuries, including seven who were wounded when someone opened fire into the crowd. Some protesters destroyed property and set fires. ![]() Police, dressed in riot gear, fired tear gas and other projectiles. Hundreds of protesters rallied in the city’s downtown, demanding justice for Taylor, who was killed when plain-clothes Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers barged into her home in the early morning hours while serving a “no-knock” warrant.Īs the sun went down, tensions rose. ![]() “I had to do direct action training with them on the fly,” the 40-year-old recalled. It was not only important for the new people, especially Louisville’s youth, who joined the protest to stay as safe as possible, but also for demonstrators to stay in the streets, Helm, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Louisville, said. ![]() Not long after Taylor’s story gained national attention, the world watched footage on May 25 of George Floyd screaming, “I can’t breathe” and crying out for his mother under the knee of a white police officer before going motionless in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As such, our Ecclesial Movements and New Communities are vital in carrying out today’s new evangelization in the Spirit of Pope Francis’ “Joy of the Gospel.Louisville, Kentucky – When mass protests erupted in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 28, one of Chanelle Helm’s biggest worries was for the young people who took to the streets.Īnger had been building over the March 13 police killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in Louisville’s West End. Still faithfully inspired as “One Spirit at Work,” our current Council encourages our ecclesial, community members to serve in unity as an instrument of holiness by promoting the Gospel in society by confessing and living out our Catholic faith in full Communion with the Church and by recognizing and respecting each others’ spiritual gifts with mutual charity, joy, and peace. In its letter to the bishops, “Iuvenescit Ecclesia”, the Vatican recognized the Holy Spirit’s presence in the Movements’ “gifts of indispensable importance for the life and mission of the Church…making present the mystery and salvific work of Christ in the world.” Most recently in May 2016, the Vatican re-confirmed the “co-essential” nature of the Ecclesial Movements’ spiritual charisms with the hierarchical, sacramental life of the Church. Ecclesial Communities enable Catholics to answer their Baptismal call of Christ’s evangelical mission. Since then, our Council’s basic purpose has been to promote membership among our various Ecclesial Communities, in order to care more effectively for the pastoral and spiritual needs of our Archdiocese. In his address he said, “Ecclesial movements…represent one of the most significant fruits of that springtime in the Church which was foretold by the Second Vatican Council…Their presence is encouraging because it shows that this springtime is advancing and revealing the freshness of the Christian experience based on personal encounter with Christ.”Ī year later, the newly formed NY Archdiocesan Council of Lay Ecclesial Movements and New Communities sowed the seeds for its “One Spirit at Work” inaugural, general membership assembly at Pentecost Jubilee Year 2000. Peter’s Square to celebrate their unity in the Holy Spirit. Pope John Paul II convened the “First World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities” during Pentecost 1998 in St. The Council of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities of the Archdiocese of New York ![]()
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