Catholic Community Confronts Founder's Lies.
Jean Vanier, the founder of the L'Arche federation, which provides community care for people with intellectual disabilities, perverted Catholic doctrine to justify his own sexual compulsions and abused women. The movement he created had at its core a secret, mystical-sexual "sect," and was founded for the precise purpose of hiding the sect's deviant activities from church authorities. L'Arche commissioned independent scholars to investigate after receiving a complaint from a victim a few years before Vanier died in 2019. The study commission identified at least 25 women whom Vanier abused, none of them intellectually disabled.
