Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Unidentified Nuns and Religious Sisters (filed at the end of the sequence)" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1967/April/13 

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:   from Merton to "Dear Sister" 

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "I very much sympathize with your "agree-with-protest" letter. First I think that you-- like all"

Contents:  many in religious orders caught between "upper and nether millstones" - superiors "preaching the old line hell fire obey the rule, and underneath the new revolution" - exploitation by the mass media of dispute / cleaving to the middle while leaving some room to be radical - not writing for the Saturday Evening Post

Language:  English

Source or donor:  

Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Unidentified Nuns and Religious Sisters (filed at the end of the sequence):"    1967/April/13