George Weigel, biographer of St. John Paul II, laments that the Pontifical Academy for Life has betrayed Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, its founding president, with a book that dissents from JPII’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae. In a book from the Academy, La Gioia della Vita (‘The Joy of Life’), the authors not only weaken “the Catholic case for a culture of life that rejects the grave crimes against life identified by Evangelium Vitae. It does so in terms of an anti-biblical and anti-metaphysical anthropology that would have been completely foreign, indeed abhorrent, to both Jérôme Lejeune and John Paul II.”