I was once very impressed by a book - a few years (decades ;-)) ago, it was never a bestseller. Morris L. West: ‘The Clowns of God’... You're probably too young to have read it back then. It's about a fictional pope in the broadest sense, clearly modelled on Woityla (John Paull II). And his (amongst other things mystical) experience in connection with trisomy patients...