Thomas Merton

Biography

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a Catholic writer who lived as a Cistercian monk and later as a hermit. Merton's books include Liturgical Feasts and Seasons (2022), Notes on Genesis and Exodus (2021), and A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture (2020).

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Neither Victims nor Executioners

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“If we spontaneously approve of nuclear terrorism, if we become apologists for the uninhibited use of naked power, we are thinking like Communists, we are behaving like Nazis, and we are well on the way to becoming either one or the other. In that event we had better face the fact that we are destroying our own Christian heritage.”

Portraits of Those I Love

History & Biography

“Father Daniel Berrigan is an altogether winning and warm intelligence and a man who, I think, has more than anyone I have ever met the true wide-ranging and simple heart of the Jesuit: zeal, compassion, understanding, and uninhibited religious freedom. Just seeing him restores one's hope in the church.”

Readings in Christian Humanism

Theology

“True Christian humanism is the full flowering of the theology of the Incarnation. It is rooted in a totally new concept of what it means to be human that grew out of the mystery of the union of God and humanity in Christ.”