Today the Holy Father received in audience:

- The Ambassadors of Mauritania, Nepal, Trinidad and Tobago, Sudan, Kazakhstan, and Niger, presenting their credential letters;

- His Eminence Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of München und Freising, Federal Republic of Germany, coordinator of the Council for the Economy;

- His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa, Italy, president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (C.C.E.E.), with:

His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, Great Britain, vice president;

His Excellency Msgr. Stanisław Gądecki, archbishop of Poznan, Poland, vice president;

Msgr. Nuno Queiroz de Barros Duarte da Cunha, secretary general;

Rev. Michel Remery, vice secretary general.

- Sufferers of Huntington’s Chorea, with their families.