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Sr. Elena Malits, CSC, a 2019 interview by Jonathan Montaldo In 2019, Jonathan Montaldo interviewed Sr. M. Elena Malits, CSC. Sr. Elena passed away on March 10, 2022. She was professor emerita in Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and was teaching a course on film to students at the time of recording in 2019. In the area of Thomas Merton studies, she is well-known for her book The Solitary Explorer: Thomas Merton's Transforming Journey. At the time of recording of the interview, the 2021 biennial conference of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) was planned for Saint Mary's College and titled, "Thou Inward Stranger." The 2021 conference was held online due to COVID-19. (The 2023 conference, "Sophia Comes Forth, Reaching," will be held at Saint Mary's June 22-25, 2023: merton.org/2023.)
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Finding Aid for Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Shipps, Howard Fenimore"
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1954-02-14: Letter to Thomas Merton from Sr. Thérèse de l'Enfant Jesus et de l'Immaculée, M.C.D.
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1968-03-12: Letter to Thomas Merton from Jean Sulzberger Jean Sulzberger writes on behalf of Time-Life Books in New York and asks for a copy of Thomas Merton's literary magazine, Monks Pond.
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1953-12-04: Letter to Thomas Merton from Fr. Nivard Kinsella, O.C.S.O. Kinsella, though expressing positive feedback overall with Merton's book The Ascent to Truth, takes issue with an assertion about modern Thomists (or would like to know Merton's source for his claim) and finds Merton's presentation of "acquired contemplation" and "infused contemplation" to be confusing.
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1967-05-13: Letter to Thomas Merton from Dorothy Dohen Ivan Illich / Merton's essay, "The English Mystics," in Mystics and Zen Masters - Julian of Norwich / distrust of mysticism - Vatican II - Daniel Callahan's article, "The Renewal Mess" / questions Merton omitting the Spanish mystics - connection between St. John of the Cross and Zen
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1967-04-29: Letter from Thomas Merton to Dorothy Dohen Merton sends an "anti-poem about the bomb" (likely "Original Child Bomb") and a copy of his book Mystics and Zen Masters, especially thinking Dohen would appreciate his essay "From Pilgrimage to Crusade."
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1967-04-12: Letter to Thomas Merton from Dorothy Dohen
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1967-04-08: Letter from Thomas Merton to Dorothy Dohen Merton mentions that Archbishop Helder Câmara stated Dohen's book to be "prophetic."
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Undated: note to Thomas Merton from Br. René Richie, O.C.S.O. Br. René Richie asks Merton if he plans to include Epictetus in his upcoming lecture on freedom given Epictetus's interest in the subject having once been a slave.