AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 25 April 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts,

six members of the presidency of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM):

    - Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes of Tlalnepantla, Mexico, president,

    - Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, archbishop of Bogota, Colombia, first vice president,

    - Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, second vice president,

    - Bishop Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales. auxiliary of Valparaiso, Chile, secretary general,

    - Bishop Carlos Maria Collazzi Irazabal, S.D.B., of Mercedes, Uruguay, president of the economic council, and

    - Fr. Leonidas Ortiz Losada, adjunct secretary general, and

- Rabbi Isaac Sacca, Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Community of Buenos Aires, Argentina and president of Menora (international youth organization), with his entourage.

This afternoon, the Holy Father is scheduled to receive Cardinal Franc Rode, C.M., prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.