This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- H.E. Msgr. Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D., titular bishop of Zica, auxiliary of Managua, Nicaragua;

- His Eminence Cardinal Séan Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., archbishop of Boston, United States of America;

- His Eminence Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy;

- H.E. Msgr. Renzo Fratini, titular archbishop of Botriana, apostolic nuncio in Spain and in the Principality of Andorra.

Today the Pope will receive in audience:

- Frère Alois, prior of the Taizé Community;

- Delegation of Catholic and Evangelical journalists from the Federal Republic of Germany.