How Jean Vanier went from a ‘living saint’ to a sexual abuser

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jean Vanier was the founder of L’Arche, a network of intentional communities where people with and without disabilities live alongside one another in mutual friendship. While he was considered a “living saint” up until his death in 2019, allegations that he had sexually abused six adult, nondisabled women sent shockwaves throughout the L’Arche Community. And more recently, a nearly 900-page report was released last Monday shed more light on the scope of the abuse. Jenna Barnett has been following this story since it broke. She is the host of the new podcast “Lead Us Not” from Sojourners. We talk to Jenna about Vanier and how L’Arche is responding, as well as larger questions about how we hold in tension the good works created by deeply flawed, charismatic founders. During Signs of the Times, we talk about the developing situation between the church and the government in Nicaragua, where four priests were sentenced to 10 years in prison, as well as Notre Dame’s new food delivery robots. (After we recorded, news broke that the four priests were part of a group of 222 political prisoners who were deported from Nicaragua and will take refuge in the United States.) Links from the show: Listen to “Lead Us Not” New report finds evidence Jean Vanier founded L’Arche to reunite a religious sect with ‘mystical-sexual’ practices Explainer: The Catholic Church’s fraught relationship with the Nicaraguan government Robot food delivery launches at the University of Notre Dame Remembering Rachel Held Evans What’s on tap? Champagne for Zac’s 30th Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	I'm Ashley Kinless and I'm joined for the last time ever while he's in his 20s by Zach Davis.
1:01.2	Wow.
1:02.3	Okay. I thought this was a celebration. Not a funeral. Yeah, I'm finally
1:10.1	aging out of the the 20s. Yeah, we've always talked about like do we take young out of the the 20s. Yeah we've always talked about like do we take young
1:14.4	out of the headline when when we're both in our 30s? Yeah I think how are you
1:18.0	feeling now that it's actually coming? I feel good about it you know like my 20s were
1:21.8	great but I can't say I'm like sad to leave them, right? I don't know. I always tell people like I felt 30 once I got married. Like that was the more of the thing that like pushed me into like a new frame of mind and think about where I was in life and how old I am. But no, I'm really excited. I'm looking forward to 30.
1:36.5	All right. Well, you picked out our celebratory drink for this episode. So what do we have? we're having some champagne and this has got some
1:43.9	Pino noir in it so it's got a nice little pink hue to it's very pretty yeah
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