This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience:

- Archbishop Alfonso V. Amarante, titular of Sorres, Rector Magnificent of the Pontifical Lateran University;

- Professor Elena Beccalli, Rector Magnificent of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart;

- Participants in the General Chapters of the following Institutes: the Society of Divine Vocations (Vocationists); the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple; the Society of the Sacred Heart; and the Dominican Missionary Sisters of Saint Sixtus;

- Bishop Douglas Regattieri of Cesena-Sarsina, Italy, with the Reverend Don Mauro Maccarinelli, O.S.B., Abbot of the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte in Cesena.