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Pontifical Academy for Life is betraying its founder, JPII biographer George Weigel says

May 22, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

George Weigel at the Angelicum in Rome, May 18, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

ACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA).
George Weigel, biographer of St. John Paul II, lamented that the Pontifical Academy for Life betrayed Dr. Jérôme … […]

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International Jérôme Lejeune bioethics conference highlights crucial life and health issues

May 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune held its second annual international conference in Rome on May 17-18, 2024, to reflect on the bioethical challenges surrounding the health and care of people at different stages of life. / Cred… […]

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St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two lives at the service of life

May 18, 2024 George Weigel 4

Note: The following remarks were made at the II International Bioethics Conference, in Rome, on May 18, 2024. Many of the participants in this conference are experts in the life and thought of a great […]

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World Down Syndrome Day an opportunity to teach, cherish, and love

March 21, 2023 Susan Ciancio 7

Would you throw away a chance at winning the Nobel Prize in order to tell the truth? That’s what French geneticist Jerome Lejeune did in 1969 when he won the William Allen Memorial Award from […]

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What is the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life?

August 10, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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Rome Newsroom, Aug 10, 2022 / 09:47 am (CNA).
A controversy over a book and statements made on Twitter has recently drawn increased attention to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.In late June, the academy’s of… […]

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Ten Catholic scientists and inventors everyone should know

July 21, 2022 Filip Mazurczak 25

July 22nd marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian Augustinian friar known as the father of genetics. While the dominant narrative in the West since the Enlightenment has been that […]

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New documentary chronicles life of Catholic scientist Jerome Lejeune, heroic Down syndrome advocate

December 18, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Dr. Jérôme Lejeune (1926-1994). Credit: Fondation Jérôme Lejeune / Wikimedia

Denver Newsroom, Dec 18, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
A documentary produced by a French filmmaker about Venerable Jerome Lejeune, a Catholic doctor and scientist who left a… […]

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Pope Francis recognizes heroic virtues of pioneering French geneticist Jerome Lejeune

January 21, 2021 CNA Daily News 1

Vatican City, Jan 21, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis recognized on Thursday the heroic virtues of Jérôme Lejeune, the French geneticist who discovered the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome.

The step, announced on Jan. 21, m… […]

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