When
Pope Francis mentions Thomas Merton
(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.
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