The International Thomas Merton Society, founded in 1987, is a learned society which studies the works of American Catholic writer and mystic

Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood and giv ...

. It sponsors conferences and co-publishes a journal, ''The Merton Seasonal''. The society and the Thomas Merton Center are located at

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, U.S.A.

References

CBC Radio, Ideas: Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton
Radio documentary mentions that some interviews about Merton were recorded at a meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society.

External links

* ttp://www.mertoncenter.org/ITMS/ International Thomas Merton SocietyOfficial site. Organizations established in 1987 Bellarmine University Learned societies of the United States Clubs and societies in the United States {{Louisville-stub