The Trappist monk's reflections on war and the Christian imperative for nonviolence may have been directed at conflicts more ...

Trappist Father Thomas Merton, one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS/Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at ...

Thomas Merton was born in 1915, to parents living in the French Pyrenees. His American mother, Ruth, who would die of cancer when Thomas was only six, was a Quaker and an artist, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — If the influential Catholic writer Thomas Merton were alive today, he would likely have strong words about police brutality and racial profiling. Back in 1963, Merton called ...

Thomas Merton argues that Christ came to inaugurate a new way of being, a new Kingdom in which the predominant mode of doing politics in the world is rejected.

Merton's last journal, The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, recounts in detail his sense that the dialogue with Buddhism was not to become some facile syncretism and did involve a scrupulous ...

Apparently, during a 1956 exchange with Father Thomas about one of Merton’s works, “Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality,” Merton overreacted to some edits.

Thomas Merton (Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University) I want to talk to Thomas Merton about race. One might doubt whether a cloistered ...

Francis cited the importance of Dorothy Day, a journalist whose conversion propelled her to found the Catholic Worker movement and advocate for the poor, and Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and one ...

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