Regarding criticism on the silence of churches and synagogues on the war in Gaza, never has a quote been more misapplied than that of Thomas Merton in the Jan. 24 letter, “Revisiting “a theology of ...

Last month, in the wake of the horrific violence in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I wrote about how the Trappist monk, author and social critic Fr. Thomas Merton's thinking about the ...

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In one of his books, Thomas Merton quotes an old Chinese saying, “Life comes without warning.” We know this is true when we remember Sept. 11, the powerful earthquakes in Haiti and Turkey, the ...

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 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 ...