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

In a provocative op-ed this morning in the New York Times, the Dalai Lama speaks of his 1968 encounter with Thomas Merton and the need for religions to highlight “what unites us.” Interestingly, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) 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 ...

The late Thomas Merton, an author and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, gave his last public presentations in the United States in 1968 at the Redwoods Monastery in the Southern Humboldt community of ...

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 ...

“With the death of Thomas Merton, we lost really one of the great Catholic voices, one of the great prophetic figures within the Catholic Church. And I think that’s why his books are still selling, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Merton was unlucky to be born in France, not long after the outbreak of World War 1. He was unlucky that his mother died of cancer when he was only six, and unlucky again when his father died ...

On 10 December 2018, we marked the 50 th anniversary of Thomas Merton's untimely death in Asia. On 31 January 2019, we celebrate the 104 th birthday of this monk and writer whose writings on ...