Morgan Atkinson's new documentary on Thomas Merton, the famed Trappist monk from the Cistercian abbey in Gethsemani, Kentucky, was "40 years in the making," he joked. Actually, it was closer to two, ...
Forty years ago this week, Trappist monk Thomas Merton passed from this life to the next. Merton, 53, met his end Dec. 10, 1968, stepping out of a shower and touching an electric fan that had ...