This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience:

- Archbishop Petar Rajič, titular of Sarsenterum, apostolic nuncio in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia;

- His Eminence Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy;

- His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences;

- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization;

- Archbishop Jaime Spengler, O.F.M., of Porto Alegre, Brazil, president of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, with Archbishop João Justino de Medeiros Silva of Gioânia, first vice president; Archbishop Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa of Olinda and Recife, second vice president; and Bishop Ricardo Hoepers, titular of Tisdro, auxiliary of Brasília, secretary general;

- A delegation of the “Sentinels of the Holy Family”;

- Members of the Secular Institute of Missionary Priests of the Kingship of Christ;

- Members of the “Bearers of Saint Rose” Sodality of Viterbo;

- The Reverend Don Simone Bruno, publishing director of Edizioni San Paolo, with Don Giuseppe Musardo.