In his lifetime Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order where he became an eloquent ...
Is it possible to have a friendship with someone you have never met? If the answer to this questions is yes, then I am ...
Few if any 20th-century Roman Catholics had a greater impact on Christian spirituality than Thomas Merton, the iconic Trappist monk, mystic and ecumenist. He lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Nelson ...
IT IS high time that somebody took a long steady look at Thomas Merton. From out of the silent Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, a TrappistCistercian monastery in Kentucky, this remarkable young man ...
Thomas Merton’s autobiography was published in October 1948, but he had begun to write it in 1944, as he reveals in his journal. A day or so after Pearl Harbor, at age 26, he had journeyed as a ...
Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and ...
I want to talk to Thomas Merton about race. One might doubt whether a cloistered White man who lived in Kentucky in the middle part of the last century would have anything useful to offer, but this ...
A little-known story about Bermuda in the early 20th century is that it was home to Owen Merton, an artist who flew under the radar for years. Charles Zuill is bringing his work to local attention ...
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