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

Monk, poet, activist, mystic, celebrated author, bridge between East and West—Thomas Merton was all of these, and he had a signal influence on the culture of mid-20th-century America. This year marks ...

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 ...

During Lent, Trappist Fr. Thomas Merton was irate when the Passion was read in what he described as an "extremely trite and pedestrian English version," albeit one approved by the American bishops. He ...

Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his journal: “I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.” Author and Merton scholar ...

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 ...

With 600,000 hardcover copies sold in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain, she writes, “is not a book, it is a phenomenon, its success at once traceable and mysterious.” In this frank, passionate memoir ...

Over the nine years we’ve lived in Louisville, my sons have grown familiar with the Abbey of Gethsemani and its monks. We go out there frequently to pray and hike with a few of the monks I’ve ...

Thomas Merton was a monk, a poet, a contemplative, a peace activist, a nurturer of interreligious dialogue—and much more. Countless books have been written exploring most of these facets of Merton's ...