Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and ...

Why should anyone care about Thomas Merton today? Merton, the famous Trappist monk and best-selling author, has now been dead for almost as long as he had lived. When he died unexpectedly on Dec. 10, ...

Pope Francis invoked four Americans in his historic speech to Congress on Thursday. Two are instantly recognizable: Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The others – Dorothy Day and ...

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., with Thomas Merton in 1964 (Photo by Jim Forest). Nearly 54 years after his untimely death, Thomas Merton continues to inspire and baffle. I do not mean that as a criticism; ...

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 ...

He highlighted the work of two prominent U.S. Catholics. — -- Two people who are likely going to be Google search terms by the end of the day are Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. They were two of ...

The late Thomas Merton's T-shirt and work shirt are just a few of the items that author John Smelcer uncovered this summer. All of Merton's clothing bears the number '127.' During Pope Francis’ visit ...

A new documentary follows the last year of Merton's life, including conflicts with his abbot, his meetings with the Dalai Lama, and his untimely death at age 53. Morgan Atkinson is already the world’s ...

Pope Francis singled out four “great Americans” during his speech before Congress on Thursday. In addition to Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln, the pope spotlighted two Catholics who are ...

Left: Trappist Father Thomas Merton is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University) Right: Vietnamese Monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks ...

Last weekend, I was in Denver at the International Thomas Merton Society's biennial conference when I received The New York Times push notification that the United States, at the instruction of ...