This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; with Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A., secretary; and His Eminence Cardinal Fabio Baggio, C.S., undersecretary;

- Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz Braña, moderator of the Prelature of Opus Dei;

- Archbishop Charles John Brown, titular of Aquileia, apostolic nuncio in the Philippines;

- Participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Academy for Life;

- His Eminence Polycarpos, metropolitan for Italy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople;

- Prefects of the Italian Republic.