Jan 31, birthday of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk. In 1967 in a “Letter on the Contemplative Life” he addressed his “brother” in the world: “My brother, perhaps in my solitude I have become as it were an explorer for you, a searcher in realms in which you are not able to visit...
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Sadly, we are living in the same world he confronted—a “post-Christian” world in which we could imagine blowing up humanity for the defense of “democracy”— and yet with reason to hope in the gospel message that there is a power stronger than death and deceit.