By Gabriel McMorland I’m grateful for the work the Thomas Merton Center has been able to do in 2018. We helped workers win back more than $10,000 in stolen wages in the […]
In Memory of Fr. Eugene Lauer
By Joyce Rothermel On May 20, TMC member Fr. Gene Lauer passed away at age 82. A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, he was a scholar, theologian, author, popular pastoral […]
What’s in the NAME — Thomas Merton?
By Jim Ruck The Center’s founders, in looking for a name, settled on “Thomas Merton,” the Catholic contemplative monk and social critic who had died not long before at age 53. From […]
Statement of Thomas Merton Center on Violence in Israel and Palestine
This statement from the Thomas Merton Center Board of Directors was approved at their May 21 board meeting. The Thomas Merton Center, together with the United Nations community, condemns the lethal use […]
2018 New Person of The Year: Monica Ruiz
By Maggie Weaver On July 26, Monica Ruiz’s son will graduate high school. At age 15, a young man traveled to the U.S., an unaccompanied minor seeking employment. He was a victim […]
2018 New Person of The Year: Monica Ruiz
BY MONICA RUIZ Editor’s Note: Monica Ruiz is Community Organizer for Casa San Jose, an organization dedicated to assisting immigrants in the Pittsburgh region and a former project of the Thomas Merton […]
2018 New Person of the Year: Monica Ruiz
By Monica Ruiz Editor’s Note: Monica Ruiz is Community Organizer for Casa San Jose, an organization dedicated to assisting immigrants in the Pittsburgh region and a former project of the Thomas Merton […]
Letter from the Director
By Gabriel McMorland This month, I want to invite friends and members of the Thomas Merton Center to get involved in an activist research collective we’re beginning this summer. Philadelphia, Buffalo, Washington […]
What Thomas Merton Means to Me, a Priest and Writer
By Will Lawbaugh They whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are. –St. John Chrysostom Thomas Merton’s journals, from 1939 to his […]
The Creation Mystic: Thomas Merton’s Invitation to Know Living Things
(Photo: America Magazine) By Carol Gonzalez “Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. Turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. Water plants in time. Continue this labor and […]
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