This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Reinhard Marx, metropolitan archbishop of München und Freising, Federal Republic of Germany, coordinator of the Council for the Economy;

- Archbishop Antoine Camilleri, titular of Skáholt, apostolic nuncio in Cuba;

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

- The Reverend Russel Lear, M.C., superior general of the “Missionaries of Charity Brothers”;

- The Reverend Archimandrite Bernard Touma, B.C., superior general of the Basilian Chouerite Order;

- Professor Marco Gallo, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, with his wife;

- Priests and monks of the Eastern Orthodox Churches;

- Members of the Order of the Midwives of the Provinces of Catanzaro, Cosenza, Crotone and Vibo Valentia.