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 ...

The International Thomas Merton Society wants to make sure there will be readers of Merton’s work and exponents of his thought among future generations. Among the 500 attendees at the 14th biennial ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) - One of modern Catholicism's most well-known writers and monks, who called the Louisville area home for part of his life, would have been 100 years old later this month. Thomas ...

In what was already the most widely anticipated speech of Pope Francis’s pastoral visit to the United States this week, the Pope’s references to two American models of Christian living—the renowned ...

Thomas Merton and my father were born within a month of each other, 100 years ago, at the start of World War I. Each suffered early parental loss; one became a poet, the other—a scientist. Merton ...

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 ...

"Pareidolia" are illusions that involve stimuli perceived as real. This poem was written on behalf of the late writer and monk, Thomas Merton, whose 100th year of his birth is being celebrated by the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Maine Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society will hold its ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) At his speech before Congress on Thursday (Sept. 24), Pope Francis listed Trappist monk Thomas Merton as one of four exemplary Americans who provide wisdom for us today. Out on 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 ...

WASHINGTON — At his speech before Congress on Thursday (Sept. 24), Pope Francis listed Trappist monk Thomas Merton as one of four exemplary Americans who provide wisdom for us today. Out on the ...