The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really beli…
This book emerges from a number of personal concerns, convictions, and intellectual encounters. A basic conviction of this work is that one can detect, how ever imperfectly, certain emphases in th…
Though the outlines of Thomas Merton's life are generally known to his many readers, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar. Taking up where Merton's own seven storey mountain e…