![Naisha Wright (r) embraces Katie Wright (c), the mother of Daunte Wright, as she speaks during a news conference outside the Hennepin County Government Center on April 13 in Minneapolis. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter on Sunday. Naisha Wright (r) embraces Katie Wright (c), the mother of Daunte Wright, as she speaks during a news conference outside the Hennepin County Government Center on April 13 in Minneapolis. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter on Sunday.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20210414020428_b859bf2a721886b4ef1fddf4c90292664a1c2d8b89cab20b1f1f20af1d2cc9f2.jpg)
Brooklyn Center Catholics Come to Terms With Daunte Wright’s Death and the Impact on Their Community
‘Tensions are just very, very high,’ Redemptorist Father John Schmidt, the pastor of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, told the Register.
‘Tensions are just very, very high,’ Redemptorist Father John Schmidt, the pastor of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, told the Register.
Archbishop Hebda called on the community to “pause and pray, particularly during this time of already heightened tension due to the Chauvin trial.”
Known for helping those in need and struggling with substance abuse, Saint André Bessette Catholic Church, was severely damaged during the riot on Nov. 3.
Taylor, 26, was killed March 13 in Louisville during a police raid of her apartment.
As one police officer says, “We have to start kneeling at church before God.”
COMMENTARY: This moment of shared outrage and unified demands for action has so quickly devolved into partisan hatred, venomous blame-game accusations, racial strife and bitter division.
“As for the many broken families, the Church feels called not to express a harsh, detached judgment, but rather to shed the light of God's word, accompanied by the witness of his mercy, on the depths of so many human tragedies.” —Pope St. John Paul II, Oct. 14, 2000
COMMENTARY: Apollo 11 was a much-needed respite amid a time of social and political chaos.
A spokesperson for the shrine said on Tuesday that the White House “originally scheduled this as an event for the president to sign an executive order on international religious freedom.”
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