This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the General Secretariat of the Synod, with His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., archbishop of Luxembourg;

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

- Archbishop Giordano Piccinotti, titular elect of Gradisca, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See;

- Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, metropolitan of Tōkyō, Japan, president of Caritas Internationalis, with Mr. Alistair Dutton, secretary general of the same Body;

- Participants in the Meeting on Indigenous Peoples, organized by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences.