a man who knows john paul ii very well, told me once when they were on vacation together in the dolomites, he said to the pope holy father, you have a priest's heart and a lay head. what did he say? his eyebrows went up for a minute but he didn't disagree. spoken to any of the pope's of the past 200 years about their early experience of the priesthood, what was it like , the pope in question would likely have talked about his experience teaching seminary or his years studying at the holy see's academia. john paul ii talks about what he environment, the circle of lay people with whom he formed intense friendships when he was there university .haplain some of these men and women are alive.er they open their lives in their memories to me, one of them gave me 4 letters which have never been printed. what does it mean to fall in tell of heruld experience of a romantic nature with a young man. they are wonderful letters. it is out of that rich , people getting educated, becoming professionals, creating families, raising children that john paul as a priest, bishop, cardinal archbishop had this f