In A Focus on Truth: Thomas Merton's Uncensored Mind, Father Patrick Collins gives a close read of Merton’s correspondence.Father Collins, former director of campus ministry at The Catholic ...

We may leave Thomas Merton — or Father Louis, as I would call him now — to the “higher pleasures” of mystical contemplation. Those who know a little of the theory of these things will envy ...

Their father, Owen Merton, a native of New Zealand, was an itinerant painter who cared little about supporting a family. Their mother, Ruth Jenkins Merton, was an American interior decorator who'd ...

Thomas Merton is best known for his spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. But he was also a prolific letter writer and, though living in a monastery, ...

Morgan Atkinson's new documentary on Thomas Merton, the famed Trappist monk from the Cistercian abbey in Gethsemani, Kentucky, was "40 years in the making," he joked. Actually, it was closer to ...

Coincidentally, Merton wrote to Ethel Kennedy, the mother of current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in 1961, about the "anti-moral response" in a lot of American politics.

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 ...

Thomas Merton in the 1960s. John Howard Griffin/With permission of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University Yet Merton’s truth flame-thrower wasn’t just directed outward.

Thomas Merton in front of his hermitage at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani Merton made the recordings in a small hermitage in the hills of Kentucky in 1967. As a Trappist monk, spiritual writer, ...

As you will find out, it was through the writings of Thomas Merton that I first heard about his artist father. Thomas Merton had, by the 1940s, become a prolific and popular American writer.