June 3, 2022

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis has announced that his prayer intention for the month of June is families. The choice is fitting, since families from around the world will gather in Rome later this month for the World Meeting of Families on June 22-26. The pope's prayer intention in May was young people. The pope describes the family as “the place where we learn to live with one another, to live with young people and those who are older.” While family love can provide us “a personal path of holiness,” the pope also stressed that “there is no such thing as a perfect family.” catholicnewsagency.com/news/251442/this-is-pope-francis-prayer-intention-for-june-2021 Bishop David Konderla of Tulsa celebrated a memorial Mass at Saint Francis Hospital Thursday following a mass shooting on the hospital’s campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa police confirmed five casualties of the shooting, including the shooter, which took place June 1 at the Natalie Building, on the south side of the hospital’s campus. During his homily, the bishop stressed hope in the midst of pain. Throughout the Mass, Konderla prayed for the victims and their families. Immediately following the shooting, Konderla, along with several priests and the Religious Sisters of Mercy, were “on site to offer pastoral support to those affected.” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251445/tulsa-bishop-says-mass-with-shooting-victims-families-we-should-not-fear Visitors to Assisi can once again see Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified in the Catholic Church, dressed in jeans and tennis shoes through a viewing glass on his tomb. Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino removed the panel covering Acutis’ tomb on June 1, reopening it for permanent public veneration. With the lifting of Italy’s former travel restrictions for tourists, many international pilgri