but there were many listening that day who still have no idea who Merton is
Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united to God
but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason
“under the protection of Mary
He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith For Comfort but there were many listeningCaptured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Only through an utter reliance on God's will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. He tells of the courage he found in prayer a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the