The purpose of this article by Benoit PIGE, (professor at University of Franche-Conté) is, through a critical reading of the Commission’s report on Jean Vanier, to examine possible questions of governance that concern the l’Arche communities and its International Federation.
What is in question is not so much the possible sexual relations of a single man (Jean Vanier) with consenting adult women as the governance of an institution (l’Arche internationale) which still relies on people appointed and chosen without any real monitoring and control body.