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Jean Vanier poses after receiving the Templeton Prize at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London last May. (Alastair Grant/AP) With the passing of Jean Vanier on May 7, the sum of the ...
When Jean Vanier first invited Raphaël and Philippe, two men with intellectual disabilities, to live with him in a tiny house in Trosly-Breuil, France, his parents, a prominent couple in Canadian ...
Nine months after Jean Vanier’s death, L’Arche International, the organization he founded, published a report that he had coercive sexual relationships with six women. Details of the report ...
(RNS) — Jean Vanier did not make a life focused on his own power. Quite the opposite, in fact. He made a life focused on the power of those with intellectual disabilities. A power that could ...
Editor’s note: An internal investigation commissioned by L’Arche officials has uncovered a disturbing pattern of abusive behavior by the late Mr. Vanier. Find out more here. Jean Vanier ...
On the news that Jean Vanier, Catholic founder of L'Arche International, has been credibly accused of serially sexually abusing women, Professor Stanley Hauerwas said he is "devastated." ...
Jean Vanier, a Canadian religious figure whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled throughout the world over the past half-century, has died at 90. Vanier died ...
Jean Vanier, the Canadian theologian, philosopher and humanitarian who died Tuesday (May 7) at the mighty age of 90, was just 77 years old when our paths crossed in Chicago on a glorious spring ...
Jean Vanier (l) chats with his dear friend Paul Peeters, who is telling Vanier they will meet in heaven, Aug. 15, 2013. (photo: Courtesy of Marguerite Peeters) Solène Tadié World May 10, ...
The French-based charity, L’Arche International, revealed that its founder, Jean Vanier, had engaged in “manipulative sexual relationships” with women from 1970 to 2005. By Eva Mbengue PARIS ...
I met Jean Vanier, once. Strangely, it came on my second day at L’Arche Daybreak, where I lived as an assistant for 2½ years in the mid-1990s. He was visiting Daybreak – based in Richmond ...
Jean Vanier, who dedicated his life to improving conditions for people on the margins and founded two worldwide organizations for those with developmental disabilities, died on Tuesday in Paris.