And this is precisely what Thomas Merton did for me in those days—he accompanied me. His story became intertwined with mine, and he immediately became a companion, even a friend.

When overwhelmed by the magnitude of global violence, Dan Horan returns to an essay by Thomas Merton: "The Root of War Is Fear." ...

Coincidentally, Merton wrote to Ethel Kennedy, the mother of current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in 1961, about the "anti-moral response" in a lot of American politics.

This remarkable monk spent fifty off-and-on years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where he was the last confessor that Thomas Merton ever had; and if that wasn’t enough to warrant further ...

Still clad in his U.S. Army uniform, Boniface had arrived at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Louisville in 1945 just after World War II ended. Merton got there a few years earlier. According to the ...

Review: The story of Thomas Merton’s forgotten brother James Martin, S.J. October 24, 2023 John Paul Merton, the brother of Father Thomas Merton, in his Royal Canadian Air Force uniform in 1943.