WINNIPEG (MANITOBA, CANADA)
Winnipeg Free Press
March 7, 2020
By John Longhurst
Jean Vanier, the founder of L’ARCHE, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together.
The recent news about Jean Vanier’s coercive and abusive sexual encounters with at least six adult women has rocked the Christian world — and beyond.
A lot has been written about the revelations. Since Vanier was Roman Catholic, I wondered what some writers from that church were saying about it.
Writing for Catholic News Service, Jamie Manson noted Vanier’s abuse follows a pattern in the Catholic church of men in authority abusing children and women.
For him, the Vanier case reaffirmed that “the church’s radically patriarchal leadership structure and theology are at the root of most sex abuse cases in the church.”
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