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Executive Director of the Aquinas Center at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology; Author of MAN OF DIALOGUE: THOMAS MERTON’S CATHOLIC VISION (http://amzn.to/34jcXzR); Blue Jays superfan; Opinions mine

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Prior to reading Pope Francis' "C'est la confiance," his recently published Apostolic Exhortation on St Thérèse of Lisieux, I was not aware of what Pope Benedict XVI said about how theologians should emulate her. Beautiful and convicting: www.vatican.va/content/bene...

17.10.2023 16:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A convert’s journey with St. John Henry Newman Like Newman, I am a convert to Roman Catholicism, but it is the way Newman converted that is most important to me.

On this feast of St John Henry Newman, here's something I wrote for America magazine about being present in St. Peter's Square for his canonization www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/1...

09.10.2023 11:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Thomas Merton—and his book that changed my life 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' a book whose 75th anniversary is celebrated this month, is widely considered a spiritual classic, and it continues to find new readers every year.

ICYMI: My piece on how Thomas Merton’s autobiography, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, got me through a vocational crisis 25 years ago (and how I ended up with a tattoo of a Merton drawing) www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...

08.10.2023 13:54 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

That's a fantastic pile of books.

06.10.2023 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Thomas Merton—and his book that changed my life 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' a book whose 75th anniversary is celebrated this month, is widely considered a spiritual classic, and it continues to find new readers every year.

Thomas Merton's autobiography, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, was published 75 years ago this week. I wrote about the impact the book had on me years ago when, as a young man, I was in the throes of a crisis of vocation (I also discuss my Merton tattoo 😳) www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...

06.10.2023 14:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure how much I'm going to use this site. If you want to stay connected, I'm on instagram and even tiktok (@gregorykhillis on both). You can also find me on facebook.

22.09.2023 00:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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