Since the news broke Saturday morning that Jean Vanier had coercive, nonconsensual and abusive sexual encounters with at least six adult women, my social media feeds have been filled with folks trying ...

The revelation that Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche and the associated Faith and Light movement, had sexual relationships with at least six women over some three decades elicits shock and pain on many ...

Madeline Burghardt teaches at York University in Toronto and is the author of Broken: Institutions, Families, and the Construction of Intellectual Disability. I met Jean Vanier, once. Strangely, it ...

(RNS) — The founder of L'Arche homes believed disabled and able-bodied people could live side by side as equals. (RNS) — Jean Vanier’s ministry to people with developmental disabilities began with a ...

Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, appears in the documentary "Summer in the Forest." (CNS photo/Abramorama) Editor’s note: An internal investigation commissioned by L’Arche officials ...

When Jean Vanier entered the room, it was buzzing with grace. It was as if the air was buoyed in warmth. Across the room, sensing the presence of someone holy, our friends and housemates—L’Arche “core ...

The Canadian bishops' conference decried Monday the sexual misconduct of Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche International. "It is with a heavy heart that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB ...

Friends and colleagues of the founder of L’Arche, who died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 90, tell the Register about his profound impact on them and on the world. Jean Vanier (l) chats with his dear ...

Jean Vanier, the long-revered founder of L'Arche, an organization of communities dedicated to caring for people with intellectual disabilities, engaged in sexually abusive relationships with at least ...

A religious leader who founded a celebrated organisation for people with learning difficulties sexually abused six women in France, an internal report says. Canadian Jean Vanier set up the global ...

When he died nine months ago, Jean Vanier — founder of L’Arche International, a worldwide organization supporting adults with intellectual disabilities — was lauded as a moral exemplar to people ...