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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

”Merton & the Protestant Tradition” edited by William Oliver Paulsell. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2016. 200 pages, $25.95 (paperback). The book “Merton & the Protestant Tradition” is about the ...

The Rev. Robert Nugent, a former Norristown resident, has published a new book on the world-famous Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton. Merton’s autobiography, ‘The Seven Storey Mountain, ...

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 ...

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 ...