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A soul-searching journey

By Matthew Ralph Forty years ago today,a celebrated writer, poet, social activist and Trappist monk was electrocuted after stepping out of a bathtub in Bangkok and touching a short-circuited electric fan. The 53-year-old resident of the Abby of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky was Thomas Merton. Best known for his autobiographical best-seller “The Seven Storey Mountain,” […]