Today’s poem is by Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood
I would double check Hemingway being an atheist. He converted to Catholicism, considered himself as a “bad Catholic” and as far as I know never renounced his Catholicism. There is a striking passage in The Sun Also Rises when Jake, also a convert, steps into a Catholic Church and prays.
I would double check Hemingway being an atheist. He converted to Catholicism, considered himself as a “bad Catholic” and as far as I know never renounced his Catholicism. There is a striking passage in The Sun Also Rises when Jake, also a convert, steps into a Catholic Church and prays.