(George Weigel. NC Register).
Many of the participants in this conference are experts in the life and thought of a great man of science and a great man of faith, the Venerable Jérôme Lejeune; I am not. But as the biographer of Pope St. John Paul II, I do know something about that exemplary disciple and powerful thinker, and I know that this great saint had the highest regard for Jérôme Lejeune.
As John Paul put it in a letter to Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris, on the day after Dr. Lejeune was called home to the Lord, Dr. Lejeune had a “charism”: a gift of God that empowered him to “employ his profound knowledge of life and its secrets for the true good of man and of humanity, and only for that purpose.”