The church needs to apply the antiseptic of the truth, at any cost -- through time and distance, beyond statutes, offering their findings with clarity to the whole world -- if she is ever to be free, if she is ever to
An independent commission just published the results of a two-year study providing shocking details about the background, pseudo-spirituality and "mechanisms of abuse and control" of the late Jean Vanier and his mentor, the late Dominican Father Thomas Philippe.
They co-founded L'Arche in 1964,
In the midst of a church and culture still reeling from seemingly endless revelations of abuse, Adam DeVille asks: Are our needs today better served by refusing to commemorate people like Jean Vanier, rubbishing all his writings, and removing every reference to
And so it’s happened again. It turns out that another great and respected Catholic hero was not what he seemed. Jean Vanier, the celebrated founder of L’Arche International, a community devoted to caring for those with intellectual disabilities, was also a serial
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about her sadness about the revelations of that Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche movement of homes for men and women with developmental disabilities, had abused women under the guise of spiritual direction. For a layman to break
Jean Vanier, founder of the ecumenical L'Arche communities that provide group homes and spiritual support for people with intellectual disabilities, used his status to have "manipulative" sexual relationships with at least six women, concludes an internal investigation commissioned by the organization.
The investigation
Advocate for the intellectually disabled, founder of L’Arche communities lived ‘radical Gospel message’
Pope Francis told reporters May 7 he had been kept informed about Jean Vanier's failing health and had phoned him a week before his death.
Jean Vanier, 90, founder of L'Arche communities and co-founder of Faith and Light, died May 7. Vanier had been suffering from cancer and was assisted at a L'Arche facility in Paris.