Today the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;

- Participants in the meeting of the Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology of the Society of Jesus;

- Prelates of the Episcopal Conference of the United States of America (Region I), on their “ad Limina Apostolorum” visit:

 - His Eminence Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley, archbishop of Boston

   with the auxiliary bishops:

   - Bishop Robert Francis Hennessey, titular of Tigia

   - Bishop Peter J. Uglietto, titular of Tubursico

   - Bishop Robert P. Reed, titular of Sufar

   - Bishop Mark O'Connell, titular of Gigti

 - Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha of Fall River

 - Bishop Peter Anthony Libasci of Manchester

 - Bishop Robert Peter Deeley of Portland

 - Bishop Mitchell Thomas Rozanski of Springfield in Massachusetts

 - Bishop Robert Joseph McManus of Worcester

 - Archbishop Leonard Paul Blair of Hartford

   with the auxiliary bishop:

   - Bishop Juan Miguel Betancourt Torres, titular of Curzola

   with the emeritus:

   - Archbishop Henri Joseph Mansell

   and with the auxiliary bishop emeritus:

   - Bishop Peter Anthony Rosazza, titular of Oppido nuovo

 - Bishop Frank Joseph Caggiano of Bridgeport

 - Bishop Michael Richard Cote of Norwich

 - Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence

   with the auxiliary bishop:

   - Bishop Robert C. Evans, titular of Acque regie.