When Jean Vanier first invited Raphaël and Philippe, two men with intellectual disabilities, to live with him in a tiny house in Trosly-Breuil, France, his parents, a prominent couple in Canadian ...

The French documentary "Summer in the Forest" depicts the lives of four disabled men and their unlikely friend: a philosopher born into a powerful and distinguished Canadian family, Jean Vanier.

Jean Vanier died May 7, at the age of 90. He died at a L'Arche home in Paris, where he had entered palliative care several weeks ago, after a protracted battle with cancer. Vanier will be mourned by ...

“It takes a long time to move from violence to tenderness,” Jean Vanier wrote in a letter accepting the $1.7 million 2015 Templeton Prize on March 11. Mr. Vanier, the founder of L’Arche, a network of ...