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The Diocese of Tulsa has requested prayer for all involved in a Wednesday night mass shooting at a medical office building near the city’s Saint Francis Hospital, which has left at least four dead. The Tulsa Police Department has confirmed four casualties of the shooting, including the gunman. No names have yet been released. Saint Francis Hospital is the anchor of Saint Francis Health System, whose website says it “is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system wholly governed and operated in Tulsa, Oklahoma whose mission is to extend the presence and healing ministry of Christ to all who seek its services.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251437/tulsa-diocese-asks-for-prayers-after-oklahoma-hospital-shooting
The Vatican announced Thursday that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Robert Barron to lead the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, in southern Minnesota. Barron, who runs the popular Catholic media apostolate Word on Fire, has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles since 2015. He will succeed Bishop John Quinn, who submitted his resignation to the pope after reaching the retirement age of 75 in 2020. Barron will be installed as bishop on July 29. The diocese of Winona, which is currently in bankruptcy, covers more than 12,000 square miles of southern Minnesota and includes 107 Catholic parishes and over 130,000 Catholics.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251438/pope-francis-appoints-bishop-barron-to-lead-minnesota-diocese
Pope Francis sent a congratulatory message to Queen Elizabeth the second on Thursday coinciding with the United Kingdom’s joyous celebration of the 70th anniversary of her reign. Queen Elizabeth, who turned 96 on April 21, is England’s longest serving monarch, having ascended to the throne in 1952 at age 25 after the death of her father, King George VI. Her coronation took place the following year. Elizabeth, who is the head of the Church of England, has met four popes as queen, and one as princess in 1951. Elizabeth and her late husband, Prince Philip, last met with Pope Francis in the Vatican in 2014, marking the 100th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Holy See.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251439/pope-francis-telegram-to-queen-elizabeth-platinum-jubilee
Today, the Church celebrates two fourth-century martyrs, Saints Marcellinus and Peter, who were highly venerated after the discovery of their tomb and the conversion of their executioner. Although the biographical details of the two martyrs are largely unknown, it is known that they lived and died during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. Both men were beheaded after refusing to renounce their faith in Christ, and according to tradition, their executioner subsequently repented and joined the Catholic Church.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/sts-marcellinus-and-peter-487