Bill Moyers? He's spectacular!” George Clooney said – and no wonder. I mentioned this legendary television journalist to the ...

In these difficult and worrying times, Doing good and pleasing God both seem like the only logical responses. Small, concrete ...

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

At times, the Bible speaks about those “itching ears” as wanting heresy or the justification of sin. At other times, the problem is not the outright contradiction of the Bible but foolish ...

JOBSWORTH council bosses are hitting families with £250 fines for leaving kids’ toys with “please take” signs outside their ...

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

The Thomas Merton Society of Canada invites you to our annual retreat, led this year by scholar and writer Ron Dart. Admission to the retreat, which explores Thomas Merton’s art of spiritual ...

Thomas Merton in front of his hermitage at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani Merton made the recordings in a small hermitage in the hills of Kentucky in 1967. As a Trappist monk, spiritual writer, ...

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 ...