Morgan Atkinson

Richard Rohr reflects on Thomas Merton’s death

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Tomorrow, December 10, marks 50 years since the death of Thomas Merton in 1968. Speaking with Richard Rohr about the impact of Merton’s death brought an interesting reaction. Merton described ’68 as a beast of a year. Rohr obviously agrees. The momentous events of 1968

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Thomas Merton’s writing as seen by Richard Rohr

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Thomas Merton is regarded as one of the great spiritual writers of the 20th century. When interviewing Richard Rohr, one of great spiritual writers of the 20th & 21st centuries, I had to ask his thoughts on Merton as a writer. He is predictably modest

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Merton as mystic and prophet

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Richard Rohr assesses Merton’s qualities as a mystic and a prophet. In this clip from a 2014 interview with Rohr the esteemed Franciscan writer and thinker shares his thoughts on different aspects of Merton’s spiritual life. The interview was part of the 2015 documentary The Many

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Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr and the East

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Since Thomas Merton died in 1968 much has been made in some quarters of his “flirtation with Eastern thought”. Thankfully we in the West have grown up a little bit since that time. Many are not as threatened by Eastern spiritual traditions. While making The

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Merton, Berrigan and the Vietnam war.

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Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan were early and prominent critics of the Vietnam war. Particularly within the Catholic Church hierarchy they were criticized for their views. Fr. Berrigan was very much on the front lines of protest. Merton, due to his monastic vocation, registered his

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