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 ...

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 ...

Why do so many Catholics still distrust Thomas Merton? Forty years ago today, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history, stepped out of a bathroom ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trappist Father Thomas Merton in an undated photo (CNS photo/Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University) Trappist Father Thomas Merton passed away on Dec. 10, 1968.

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 ...