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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faced with anxieties we have not experienced since the Cold War, perhaps it is time to return to Thomas Merton’s writings on nuclear weapons and the Christian responsibility to advocate for peace in a ...

Ever since the publication four years ago of his bestselling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, Trappist Thomas Merton (Father Louis) has been testifying to the virtues of the strict monastic ...

Forty years ago this week, Trappist monk Thomas Merton passed from this life to the next. Merton, 53, met his end Dec. 10, 1968, stepping out of a shower and touching an electric fan that had ...

IT IS high time that somebody took a long steady look at Thomas Merton. From out of the silent Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, a TrappistCistercian monastery in Kentucky, this remarkable young man ...

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 ...

The famous Catholic theologian never set foot in the LDS-dominated state, but he wrote about the Huntsville Trappist monastery, and his editor-publisher owned the Alta Lodge.