This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- H.E. Mr. Milo Đjukanović, president of the Republic of Montenegro, with his wife and entourage;

- His Eminence Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; with the vice-president, H.E. Msgr. José Horacio Gómez, archbishop of Los Angeles; with the general secretary, Msgr. Brian Bransfield; and with the adjunct general secretary, Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill;

- His Eminence Cardinal Jean Zerbo, archbishop of Bamako, Mali;

- Professor Francis Leo Delmonico, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and director of the New England Organ Bank, Waltham, United States of America; academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.