A monk’s vocation is toward God, not a strategic retreat from something else.
Thomas Merton
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Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, MLK and Pope Francis: models of good citizenship
Francis has reminded us time and time again that we cannot withdraw into our protective cocoons and ignore what is going on around us.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
My father, Thomas Merton and the legacy of nuclear warfare
We might hope that in tandem with the pope’s recognition of the horrors of the first two atomic bombs, there is a concurrent abhorrence of tens of millions of human souls brutalized and murdered by four totalitarian political regimes.
Posted inFaith, The Ignatian Educator
The Enduring Influence of Thomas Merton
Fr Robert Barron founder of Word on Fire and creator of the impressive nbsp Catholicism nbsp series a few days ago nbsp published an essay nbsp expressing the impact that Thomas Merton 39 s writings exerted on his Fr Barron 39 s interest in religious life Fr Barron says that Merton quot h
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Merton As Writer: Echoing Silence
How Merton kept the scales of his two vocations, writer and monk, in balance.
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Merton (Still) Matters: How the Trappist monk and author speaks to millennials
Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton.
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The 45th Anniversary of Thomas Merton’s Death
Merton was only 53 years old at the time of his sudden and unexpected death.
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Merton and the ‘True Self’
Writing about Paul Elie yesterday has me recalling a passage from his outstanding book nbsp The Life You Save May be Your Own I first read it in law school when I was searching intensely for my own place for my own path for that combination of career location and life plan that like a railroad
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Thomas Merton and Dialogue with Buddhism
I have been asked first to sit in meditation with a Buddhist group in San Francisco at the end of this month and then give them a talk on Thomas Merton and the dialogue with Buddhism Merton who early on in his career showed a keen interest in dialogue with the religions of Asia Hinduism Sufis
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What the Dalai Lama Learned from Thomas Merton
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 nbsp Interestingly Merton is often nbsp criticized by some Catholics for not being sufficiently Catholic towards the