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

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) 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 the ...

I first learned about Thomas Merton when I skipped chapel at my Christian high school. I started to meet weekly with a kindhearted Bible teacher who looked through my cynicism and saw a desire for a ...

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.

Having read, written, taught, led retreats and lectured on the writing of Thomas Merton for many years, I am used to encountering a range of responses people have to the late Trappist monk and ...

I write these words on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton, one of the greatest spiritual writers of the 20th century and a man who had a decisive influence on me and my ...

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 ...

Thomas Merton was unlucky to be born in France, not long after the outbreak of World War 1. He was unlucky that his mother died of cancer when he was only six, and unlucky again when his father died ...

On 10 December 2018, we marked the 50 th anniversary of Thomas Merton's untimely death in Asia. On 31 January 2019, we celebrate the 104 th birthday of this monk and writer whose writings on ...

Thomas Merton was unlucky to be born in France, not long after the outbreak of World War 1. He was unlucky that his mother died of cancer when he was only six, and unlucky again when his father died ...