This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, metropolitan archbishop of Marseille, France, president of the Bishops’ Conference of France; with Archbishop Vincent Jordy, metropolitan of Tours, vice president; Bishop Benoît Bertrand of Pontoise, vice president; and the Reverend Christophe Le Sourt, secretary general;

- Archbishop Georg Gänswein, titular of Urbisaglia, apostolic nuncio in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia;

- Bishop Ricardo Basilio Morales Galindo, O. de M., of Copiapó, Chile;

- The Reverend Fr. Hans Zollner, S.J.;

- Directors and staff of Italian intelligence.