The Merton House in Douglas, Queens, N.Y. If one asks who was the most important spiritual thinker of past 100 years, most people, Catholic or not, will more likely say Thomas Merton. Before he left ...
Last month, just days before the midterm elections, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo ended an episode of his nightly show — which had focused on recent demonization of immigrants — with a lengthy quote on ...
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., with Thomas Merton in 1964 (Photo by Jim Forest). Nearly 54 years after his untimely death, Thomas Merton continues to inspire and baffle. I do not mean that as a criticism; ...
In 2015, the centenary year of Thomas Merton’s birth in France, I attended a conference in June at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, organised by the International Thomas Merton Society ...