Jean Vanier is first and foremost committed to the person with an intellectual disability. Indeed, it is his experience of a shared life with people with an intellectual disability that allowed him to develop his vision of what it means to become human
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Throughout history exceptional humans have given up wealth, power and privilege to teach us about a great but obscure form of power. These include Catherine of Siena, Donna Gracia Mendes of Spain, Frances of Assisi, and Prince Ashoka of India. Jean Vanier is one of these exceptional humans. He was born into the power of privilege....
SoundSeen: Video — Krista's Interview with Jean Vanier
Bishop Claggett Center — October 18, 2007
In October 2007, Krista flew to Washington DC and drove to the Bishop Claggett Center in rural Maryland for a rare interview with Jean Vanier. He speaks with his whole body, especially his hands. We filmed the entire conversation in a converted farmhouse for you to see.
This is the first instalment in a continuing correspondence between Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche, a worldwide group of communities for the disabled, and Globe and Mail writer Ian Brown.
12/09/2010 A Wise and Tender Heart - Jean Vanier's letter to Parliamentary Committee on Palliative Care
There is an all Party Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care engaged in consultations across Canada. They are preparing policy recommendations on palliative care, suicide prevention, elder abuse and disability issues related to health care.
(Montreal Gazette)
Jean Vanier – wise humanitarian and all-round mensch; The founder of L’Arche deserves a Nobel Prize for his work by Bernie M. Farber is CEO of Canadian Jewish Congress.
It has been said that one true measure of civilization is how well we treat the most vulnerable
The Politics of Gentleness An interview with L'Arche founder Jean Vanier and theologian Stanley Hauerwas. interview by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Acclaimed as “a Canadian who inspires the world” (Maclean's Magazine) and a “nation builder” (The Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier is the founder of the international movement of L'Arche communities, where people who have developmental disabilities and the friends who assist them create homes and share life together.
Letters from Jean Vanier and Press Review, in News and Public documents.
Jean Vanier, CC GOQ (born September 10, 1928) is a Canadian Catholic philosopher, humanitarian and the founder of L'Arche, an international organization which creates communities where people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them share life together.
Jean Vanier, 2008
ELIZABETH RENZETTI
TROSLY-BREUIL, FRANCE— From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday,
Dec. 26, 2008 11:37PM EST
There's no St. Christopher's medal to protect passengers on the dashboard of Jean Vanier's little red car, although perhaps there should be. With only its headlights and a full moon to light the way, the car creeps along the frosty country roads near Trosly-Breuil, an hour north of Paris, where he has lived for the past 44 years in the first of the many communities he has built for the disabled.
Coming to Terms with Jean Vanier: Beyond Conventional Admiration by Jacques Dufresne
JEAN VANIER - nominated by Margaret Somerville
By Margaret Somerville - Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, The Mark April 18, 2010
An Interview with Jean Vanier Jean Vanier talks about the values that lead to our becoming human. by Beth Porter
Jean Vanier, founder of the International Federation of L'Arche communities gave this interview in early November in a celebration of the 40th anniversary of L'Arche. There are currently 26 L'Arche communities in Canada where people with developmental disabilities and those who come to assist them share life together.
The Interim Canada’s Life and Family Newspaper Jean Vanier: still on a journey
Published: Monday, April 17, 2006, 8:07 am | Author: Alex Schadenberg
On Jan. 31, there was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch a presentation by Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arche, and Dr Balfour Mount, the founder of palliative care in Canada. The title of the presentation was A Journey to Personal & Social Transformation
Jean Vanier began his talk by stating he has lived for 41 years with people who live with rejection. These people have been put aside by society and, throughout the 1960s and 70s, were institutionalized. Vanier said people with disabilities today live in garbage cans or they are aborted.
Tue, May 25, 2010 Jean Vanier’s Becoming Human serves as an excellent companion piece to Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget which I reviewed earlier this month. You may recall Lanier’s thesis: in creating software that facilitates online interaction, designers often contribute to alienating experiences because they fail to give prior thought to the question of what it means to be human. While, at some level, the question of what it means to be human is unanswerable, that does not make asking the question a fruitless exercise. The question is more like a koan, where the simple fact of contemplating it yields insights. Vanier contemplates it deeply, not to give an answer, but to share the insights that seventy years of experience have offered him.
Some years ago the Globe and Mail established its Nation Builder of the Year award. In an effort to soften its patrician image, the paper invites nominations from its readership, an exercise in populist democracy in the largest city of a country that is still a constitutional monarchy.
This year's winner is a man who has spent his life calling into question society's penchant for ranking, honors, and success: Jean Vanier. While others have contributed to their nation's success through their physical prowess, financial acumen, political savvy, or entrepreneurial genius, Vanier's contribution has been to call into question the very standard by which we judge "success." He is the consummate subversive of the value system that equates human dignity with utility.
For 46 years Jean Vanier has travelled the world spreading a transformative message. Yesterday I saw him at Blackfriars By Francis Phillips on Thursday, 20 January 2011
A blog about philosophy, psychology, and our search for the Good Life.
Wednesday, 8 September 2010 An interview with Jean Vanier
OPC has posted a video on to its website a video of Jean Vanier's talk and a related interview given the following day
37 quotes from Jean Vanier
"To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain."
— Jean Vanier (Becoming Human)
Catherine and Jean Vanier By Postulator | Published: September 2008 Catherine: Cause Newsletter #16 — Fall 2008 From the Postulator’s Desk
Jean Vanier with Catherine Doherty at Madonna House, 1971.
The gospel influence of Catherine on others is one indication of the work of the Holy Spirit in her life. Such influences are significant for the evaluation of her holiness. My last newsletter was about Catherine’s influence on Thomas Merton. Although Catherine’s contacts with Jean Vanier were less frequent, you will see that he considers her and, even more, her community, to be major influences in his journey to L’Arche.
Jean Vanier’s principles match those of the Centre for the Arts and Human Development.
Jean Vanier brought a message about the uniqueness of every human being to a packed Oscar Peterson Concert Hall on Feb. 1. (2006)
December 22.2008 In America The national Catholic Weekly by Carolyn Whitney-Brown
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