It is during this meeting that Lawrence confronts Benitez over why he cancelled a planned trip to a clinic in Switzerland, leading the new pope to reveal that he was raised as a male but later learned that he is intersex, meaning his reproductive organs do not fit into the gender binary.

"The Slum Pope has died. Long live the pope of the poor, the marginalised, the disenfranchised," the world cried. Now that Pope Francis' funeral is done, the Vatican—one of the world’s oldest continually operating organisations—prepares for its most sacred act of political theatre: the papal conclave.

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on Tuesday he would not take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope, as thoughts turned to who will succeed Pope Francis who died last week.