The Canadian founder of the L’Arche Community, once hailed as a living saint, was a serial sexual abuser, and members of the community he helped found struggle to find new words to express their sense of horror and betrayal. Facing even the possibility, a new report suggests, that L’Arche itself was founded in part to be “a mixture of authority, guidance and sex.”
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L’Arche: Moving on from abuser Jean Vanier
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Monday, February 27, 2023