The anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton (Dec. 10, 1968) is coming up, and I offer this meditation from a few years back. “Spots of time” is what the poet William Wordsworth called those places ...
A few weeks ago, I spent a lovely Saturday morning speaking on "Thomas Merton and the Wisdom of Peace and Nonviolence" at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in southern Illinois. We had a ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) If the influential Catholic writer Thomas Merton were alive today, he would likely have strong words about police brutality and racial profiling. Back in 1963, Merton called the ...