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What people with intellectual disabilities can teach us about friendship

South Bend, Ind., Dec 30, 2019 / 03:38 pm (CNA).- When French Catholic Jean Vanier brought two men with intellectual disabilities to live with him in his home, he did so more out of a sense of religious duty than anything else.

But as time went on, he began to realize that what the men needed was not help, but friendship. In the founding of his L’Arche (The Ark) homes for people with intellectual disabilities, friendship became the pillar of what those communities were and are all about.

“In short, Vanier had discovered they shared a common world,” Professor Stanely Hauerwas said in his keynote address last month at the University of Notre Dame’s annual conference sponsored by the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.

Praise the Lord

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