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,
The ecumenical L'Arche community in Wroclaw, Poland, set up a day care center for Ukrainian refugees, and the children play war games at every opportunity, said Joanna Stasienko, who heads the local community.
"It's terrifying," she told Catholic News Service in early April.
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
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’