Jonathan Montaldo has served as director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University and is a past president of the International Thomas Merton Society. His editions of Thomas Merton's works include Entering the Silence: Thomas Merton's Journals, Volume 2; The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals (with Patrick Hart); Dialogues with Silence: Thomas Merton's Prayers & Drawings; A Year with Thomas Merton; Thomas Merton In His Own Words; Choosing to Love the World: Thomas Merton on Contemplation; and the eight-volume series Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton (with R
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Montaldo, Director Emeritus of the Merton Center at Bellermine University, says that people respond to Merton's writings because he wrote from the deepest part of his soul. He was an authentic monk in the spirit of Meister Eckhart. 'Merton believed that... SEE MORE