Jean Vanier and the line between good and evil. We should take another lesson from Vanier’s story, which is this: don’t go to the other extreme and give in completely to cynicism. Opinion by andrewphil
That’s particularly difficult for journalists, who tend in any case to look for the cloud behind every silver lining. But it applies to everyone.
Those people in the L’Arche community near Paris were real. Their lives were immensely better because Vanier and many others showed a way to treat them as full human beings, not an inconvenience to be tucked away. There are 157 similar communities around the world, still doing that work. That goes on no matter the reality behind their founder’s image.
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