2015-09-24 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) During his speech to the joint session of the United States Congress in Washingotn DC, on Thursday 24th of September Pope Francis highlighted the figure of Thomas Merton saying:
" He remains a source of spiritual inspiration and a guide for many people. In his autobiography he wrote: “I came into the world. Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born. That world was the picture of Hell, full of men like myself, loving God, and yet hating him; born to love him, living instead in fear of hopeless self-contradictory hungers”. Merton was above all a man of prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church. He was also a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions."
Thomas Merton was one of the most popular writers of spirituality of our time. He was an AmericanTrappist monk who died in Bangkok in 1968 and was born in 1915 in France.
Listen to a programme focusing on the writings of Thomas Merton presented by Jill Bevilacqua and produced by Sean- Patrick Lovett:
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