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 ...

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

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, ...

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.

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 (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 ...

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

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A crowd came out to celebrate what would have been Thomas Merton’s 101st birthday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Albany on Sunday with a jazz concert dedicated to the Trappist monk and ...

Bellarmine is proposing naming the span for Thomas Merton, an internationally known Trappist monk and spiritual writer who lived from 1915-68. His writings included a poem entitled, ...