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 Nelson ...

Many of them remember their first Thomas Merton book and when and where they read it. They speak of those moments with the fervor of someone recounting a conversion, and for some, encountering that ...

Faced with anxieties we have not experienced since the Cold War, perhaps it is time to return to Thomas Merton’s writings on nuclear weapons and the Christian responsibility to advocate for peace in a ...

Forty years ago this week, Trappist monk Thomas Merton passed from this life to the next. Merton, 53, met his end Dec. 10, 1968, stepping out of a shower and touching an electric fan that had ...

Ever since the publication four years ago of his bestselling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, Trappist Thomas Merton (Father Louis) has been testifying to the virtues of the strict monastic ...

IT IS high time that somebody took a long steady look at Thomas Merton. From out of the silent Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, a TrappistCistercian monastery in Kentucky, this remarkable young man ...