Word: trappists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimistic. Priests, laymen and educators, he thinks, are beginning to put less faith in mere organization to accomplish their purposes, the Catholic press is growing more interested in social problems, and the contemplative life is coming into its own, e.g., monasteries are turning applicants away and the autobiography of Trappist Thomas Merton is a bestseller. Escoulin looks to "an American Catholic Church more sure of itself, and at the same time more humble, having eliminated the complexes created in it by the historical and social situation" to "throw its weight decisively on the destiny of the United States...
Devout or not, thousands of U.S. readers have plowed through the books of Trappist Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe) with wondering attention. What makes a man give up the world? What is his life like when he does? Monica Baldwin's I Leap Over the Wall is Merton in reverse: the story of a British nun who went back to the world...