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 ...

When Selected Poems first appeared in 1959, Mark Van Doren wrote that Thomas Merton believed that “poetry at its best is contemplation—of things, and of what they signify.” At a time when poets are ...

The Thomas Merton Contemplative Initiative invites you to engage in A Vow of Conversation on things that matter with Sufi scholar Dr. Rachana Umashankar and Merton scholar Dr. Kathleen Deignan, CND, ...

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 ...

Contemplation has been a part of my life since I was a child taking long walks to pause and process. In 2011, after reading Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation, I quit my job and traveled to ...

Robert Ellsberg with Sister Wendy. Photo provided by the author. Like most people, I came to know Sister Wendy Becket through her popular television program, “Sister Wendy’s Odyssey,” which appeared ...