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 ...

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 ...

Actors Theatre commissioned Mee to write "The Glory of the World" for centennial of Thomas Merton's birth. "It's the most raucous, wild, celebratory birthday party you've ever seen," said Mee of the ...

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 ...

Trappist Father Thomas Merton, one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at ...

If the influential Catholic writer Thomas Merton were alive today, he would likely have strong words about police brutality and racial profiling. Back in 1963, Merton called the civil rights movement ...

Thomas Merton was born on the morning of Jan. 31, 1915, in the quaint and remote French town of Prades. Newspapers across France were reporting excitedly about this tiny place on the border of the ...