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Sacred Spaces
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O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Merton’s Zen Catholicism
C.C. Pecknold, Catholic Herald
Thursday, April 11, 2019
“Over the years,” the author writes, “I’ve occasionally thought about reading [Father Thomas Merton’s] Seven Storey Mountain, but the pull was never strong enough. I couldn’t shake the hint of cocktail party mysticism about him.” And then there’s the matter of his affair with a student nurse.