Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and ...

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., with Thomas Merton in 1964 (Photo by Jim Forest). Nearly 54 years after his untimely death, Thomas Merton continues to inspire and baffle. I do not mean that as a criticism; ...

Fr. Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire and creator of the impressive Catholicism series, a few days ago published an essay expressing the impact that Thomas Merton’s writings exerted on his (Fr.

Pope Francis invoked four Americans in his historic speech to Congress on Thursday. Two are instantly recognizable: Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The others – Dorothy Day and ...

The late Thomas Merton, an author and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, gave his last public presentations in the United States in 1968 at the Redwoods Monastery in the Southern Humboldt community of ...

He highlighted the work of two prominent U.S. Catholics. — -- Two people who are likely going to be Google search terms by the end of the day are Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. They were two of ...

Thomas Merton was born on the morning of Jan. 31, 1915, in the quaint and remote French town of Prades. Newspapers across France were reporting excitedly about this tiny place on the border of the ...

The late Thomas Merton's T-shirt and work shirt are just a few of the items that author John Smelcer uncovered this summer. All of Merton's clothing bears the number '127.' During Pope Francis’ visit ...

A colorful painting of a bald man with large ears and a mischievous smile hung on an otherwise unadorned wall at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville that was my boyhood home away from home in the ...

Today marks the start of the 17th biennial conference of the International Thomas Merton Society. This year's conference theme, "Thou Inward Stranger," comes from a line in one of Merton's poems. It ...

H_ere ends the book, but not the searching._ Thomas Merton ended “The Seven Storey Mountain” with a little Latin to that effect: Sit finis libri, non finis quaerendi. Set tombstone-style in small caps ...