Monk's Words Still Ring True -- Thomas Merton Conference Brings Eclectic Group to Cbu

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › June 12, 2007

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That Thomas Merton's words echo so strongly four decades after his death is both triumph and tragedy, his friend Father James Conner said Sunday.

Certainly encouraging is the knowledge that the life and work of the Trappist monk, who died in 1968, continues to be admired and studied by people of diverse faith traditions throughout the world.

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Monk's Words Still Ring True -- Thomas Merton Conference Brings Eclectic Group to Cbu

And yet, Conner said, the fact that so many of Merton's essays on peace and equality could have been penned today is a power...

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