Navarrosa, who is currently writing his thesis on the pope’s 2016 encyclical 'Amoris Laetitia,' recalls meeting Francis in 2021 and says he had hoped to meet him again. “I’m not worried about the future of the church, because it is guided by the Holy Spirit,” he says.

Catholics from around the world are expected to queue to see Pope Francis lying in state at St Peter's Basilica while cardinals are at the Vatican and have had their first meeting since his death