The late Thomas Merton, an author and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, gave his last public presentations in the United States in 1968 at the Redwoods Monastery in the Southern Humboldt community of ...

A colorful painting of a bald man with large ears and a mischievous smile hung on an otherwise unadorned wall at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville that was my boyhood home away from home in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

What about the life a monk could appeal to a woman who lived through the 20th century’s most significant events? Subjects like spirituality and the interior life remain elusive by nature, but Merton’s ...

Thomas Merton’s autobiography was published in October 1948, but he had begun to write it in 1944, as he reveals in his journal. A day or so after Pearl Harbor, at age 26, he had journeyed as a ...

In an age of unrest and distraction, Thomas Merton poses many challenges to contemporary culture, inviting a deeper sense of the human, a broadened grasp of catholicity, and a way of communal ...

To the editor: Reflecting on the state of the world today (while working on a new book I am writing inspired by the life of Thomas Merton), I came across an entry in Merton's journal apropos of our ...

Trudging cold and damp out of California's Redwoods, John Francis is ready to give up. Armed with a backpack and a banjo, he spies a truck parked up ahead. It's true, a catastrophic oil spill years ...

WASHINGTON — At his speech before Congress on Thursday (Sept. 24), Pope Francis listed Trappist monk Thomas Merton as one of four exemplary Americans who provide wisdom for us today. Out on the ...

Thomas Merton; Olmsted Parks; Little Loomhouse/Hill Sisters; Mark Wourms - YES! Fest. Louisville Life explores the Thomas Merton story, including a visit to Bellarmine University, the official ...