This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints;

- Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, S.J., prepositor general of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits);

- Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, archbishop of Reims, France, president of the Bishops’ Conference of France; with Bishop Dominique Blanchet of Créteil, vice president; Archbishop Vincent Jordy of Tours, vice president; and Msgr. Hugues de Woillemont, secretary general;

- Priests of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, returning from their Missionary Year;

- Participants in the General Chapters of:

  - Friars Minor Conventual;

  - The Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of Captives (Trinitarians).