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Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., former president of St. Bonaventure University, offers an opening blessing to the 2017 International Thomas Merton Society conference.
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Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about his plenary presentation on Thomas Merton and racial justice at the 2015 General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society at Bellarmine University. Interviewed and filmed by Robert Grip.
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Ethel Kennedy expresses her regrets that she will not be able to attend the inauguration of the Thomas Merton Studies Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky. She notes the importance of Merton for her and for her husband, the late Bobby Kennedy.
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Thomas Merton offers Ethel Kennedy condolences following the assassination of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy. Merton encloses what he describes as a "rather touching letter from a total stranger in Brazil. Merton expresses shock regarding "Bobby's tragic immolation" and the hope for the country and for peace lost in his passing. Merton references their mutual friend, Fr. Dan Walsh.
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Catherine de Hueck Doherty of Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario. Signed Catherine in blue ink on front; on back is written Taken at Oleans.
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Sr. Therese Lentfoehr, S.D.S. (1902-1981).
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Dom James Fox.
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Thomas Merton and Mark Van Doren at Gethsemani Abbey.