{"id":48818,"date":"2015-03-12T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_jean_vanier_advocate_of_disabled_wins_1-7_million_templeton_prize_f\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:45:33","slug":"reuters_jean_vanier_advocate_of_disabled_wins_1-7_million_templeton_prize_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48818","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters)  Jean Vanier, Advocate of disabled, wins $1.7 million Templeton Prize for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Vanier, a Canadian who launched an international network of communities for the mentally disabled, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for affirming life&#8217;s spiritual dimension.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-based John Templeton Foundation announced the award on Wednesday in London, calling him &#8220;this extraordinary man&#8221; whose message of compassion for society&#8217;s weakest members &#8220;has the potential to change the world for the better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vanier, 86, founded the first L&#8217;Arche (&#8220;Ark&#8221;) community in 1964 when he invited two mentally disabled men to leave their large institution and live with him in a small house in Trosly-Breuil, a village 95 km (60 miles) north of Paris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/11\/us-disability-prize-vanier-idUSKBN0M714F20150311\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Vanier, a Canadian who launched an international network of communities for the mentally disabled, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for affirming life&#8217;s spiritual dimension. The U.S.-based John Templeton Foundation announced the award on Wednesday in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48818\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,175,207,168,200,468,119,104,184,436,88,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-france","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-poverty","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}