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

This exchange of letters between Merton, the well-known American Trappist, and Leclercq, a French Benedictine, offers an intriguing glimpse into the minds of the two monks and their efforts to nudge ...

Today marks the start of the 17th biennial conference of the International Thomas Merton Society. This year's conference theme, "Thou Inward Stranger," comes from a line in one of Merton's poems. It ...

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 ...

I want to talk to Thomas Merton about race. One might doubt whether a cloistered White man who lived in Kentucky in the middle part of the last century would have anything useful to offer, but this ...

While Merton’s views of his abbot are well-documented in the former’s prolific writings, Lipsey (Hammarskjöld: A Life) draws on lesser-known documents from the pen of Dom James Fox himself to “shape ...

During his historic address to a joint session of Congress in 2015, Pope Francis raised up four virtuous Americans as models of citizenship: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and ...

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 ...

We welcome Dr. Paul Pearson, Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky, who brings to the Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery at Iona College Merton's trove of ...

Entering into dialogue with those of differing opinions can be challenging. On more than one occasion I’ve found myself wholly discounting, or worse, disrespecting another whose outlook on a ...

The new location of the Thomas Merton Family Center held its grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday. The newly built center aims to provide essential services to the homeless including hot ...