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The French Film, "Of Gods and Men" is a portrait of the Trappist monks living at Tibhirine, a remote monastery in the Atlas Mount...

"Well, I think the purpose of the monastic life in the modern world is to show that we don’t need a purpose. The purpose of life is li...

Robert Lax, Photo by Hartmut Geerken During the early 1950s there was a big debate going on about whether or not art had anything to do wi...

  Robert Lax, Photo by Hartmut Geerken   A Lax motto that is perfectly out of keeping with our times ... opportunity knocks but once ...

The solitary life, being silent, clears away the smoke-screen of words that man has laid down between his mind and things. In solitude we re...

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all pol...

Photo of Catherine de Hueck Doherty by Merton, 1941 Merton first met Catherine de Hueck Doherty when she spoke at St. Bonaventure Univer...