Last month, in the wake of the horrific violence in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I wrote about how the Trappist monk, author and social critic Fr. Thomas Merton's thinking about the ...

Over the nine years we’ve lived in Louisville, my sons have grown familiar with the Abbey of Gethsemani and its monks. We go out there frequently to pray and hike with a few of the monks I’ve ...

The author and monk Thomas Merton visited Alaska from Sept. 17 to Oct. 2, 1968. He was en route to Bangkok for a conference, where he died unexpectedly on Dec. 10. Credit: Thomas Merton Center / ...

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 ...