Merton in the Catholic Worker

Christ of the Breadlines
"Christ of the Breadlines" by Fritz Eichenberg

For Reviews of Books by and about Thomas Merton in The Catholic Worker, click here.

For Articles and Poetry about Thomas Merton in The Catholic Worker, click here.

For a full list of digitized issues at the Merton Center of The Catholic Worker, click here. For a more complete collection of digitized editions of The Catholic Worker, see the Catholic News Archive (external link).

Articles: 
"Poverty," April '49 - [full issue]
"The Root of War," Oct. '61 - [full issue]
"The Shelter Ethic," Nov. '61 - [full issue]
"On the General Strike for Peace," Feb. '62 - [letter to Jim Forest] / [full issue]
"Christian Ethics and Nuclear War," March '62 - [full issue]
"Ethics and War, A Footnote," April '62 - [full issue]
"We Have to Make Ourselves Heard" (part one), May '62 - [full issue (part one)]
"We Have to Make Ourselves Heard" (part two), June '62 - [full issue (part two)]
"St. Maximus the Confessor on Nonviolence," Sept. '65 - [full issue]
"No More Strangers," Feb. '66 - [full issue]
"Albert Camus and the Church," Dec. '66 - [full issue]
"lshi—A Meditation," March-April '67 - [full issue]
"The Shoshoneans" (a review-article), June '67 - [full issue]
"Auschwitz, A Family Camp," Nov. '67 - [full issue]
"War and Vision, The Autobiography of a Crow Indian," Dec. '67 - [full issue]
"The Sacred City," Jan. '68 - [full issue]
"The Vietnam War: An Overwhelming Atrocity," March '68 [full issue]
"The Wild Places," June '68 - [full issue]
"Letter to a Young Activist" (posthumous), Dec. '77 - [full issue]
"The Ecological Conscience" (selections from Merton's review article "The Wild Places" from June '68), Dec. 2008 - [full issue]

Book Review:
Zen in Japanese Art, July-Aug. '67 - [full issue]

Poetry:
"Clairvaux Prison," Jan. '48 - [full issue]
"Chant To Be Used in Processions Around a Site With Furnaces," July-Aug. '61 - [full issue]
"Advice to a Young Prophet," Jan. '62 - [full issue]
"Soldiers of Peace" (by Clement of Alexandria, trans. by Thomas Merton) Jan. '63 - [full issue]
"An Ideal Society," Jan. '68 - [full issue]

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