Merton struggled to reconcile his religious calling with his global stature. His desire to address political topics such as nuclear proliferation and civil rights brought him into conflict with ...

Is it possible to have a friendship with someone you have never met? If the answer to this questions is yes, then I am ...

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 year has turned again; Sept. 11 approaches. This year it marks not only the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, but the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Gandhi's satyagraha movement ...

Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and ...

Gregory K. Hillis is Associate Professor of Theology at Bellarmine University. Alone in his hermitage on 22 September 1967 - a little over one year before his untimely death - Thomas Merton decided to ...

Mind Moves:In 1967, Suzanne, a 16 year-old high-school student from California, wrote to a Trappist monk living in a hermitage in Kentucky, to ask him for a contribution to her school magazine. She ...

My Sept. 11 column about Thomas Merton's brief stay in Alaska jolted Merton memories across the U.S. Then Pope Francis invoked a memory of Merton in his recent address to Congress. In this column, I'm ...