Catholic Group Confronts Founder's Sexual Deviance

The findings of an expert report showed that one revered Catholic leader, who built a movement of community care for people with intellectual disabilities, perverted Catholic doctrine about Jesus and Mary to justify his own sexual compulsions and abuse women along with his idol, a French Dominican priest, Nicole Winfield reported for the Associated Press (AP).

Photo Insert: Vanier built the utopian-style, Catholic-inspired community after he joined L’Eau Vive, founded in 1950 by a French Dominican priest, the Rev.

The findings of a second report were even worse: The movement 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.

The two reports about Jean Vanier and the L’Arche federation have rocked the group of 137 groups in 25 countries to its core, all the more because L’Arche itself commissioned independent scholars to investigate. Vanier died in 2019.

Vanier, a former Canadian and Royal Navy officer, founded L’Arche in 1964 in northern France. He built the utopian-style, Catholic-inspired community after he joined L’Eau Vive, founded in 1950 by a French Dominican priest, the Rev.

Thomas Philippe. At L’Arche, both Vanier and Philippe recruited and had sex with at least 25 women and justified their lust by saying Jesus and Mary had an incestuous relationship. The Vatican sacked Philippe and dissolved L’Eau Vive in 1956.

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