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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Batten, R. J., Fr., O.P.".
Fr. R. J. Batten was a Dominican priest writing from Wahroonga, New South Wales.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See letters to "Lemercier, Gregorio, Dom, O.S.B." file for an earlier appraisal of Lemercier's community; and see also one published letter from Merton to Batten in The School of Charity, p. 351.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1967/10/29 |
TLS to Merton |
I know that you must be inundated with letters seeking your advice on all sorts of matters, but I'm |
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working on new edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica / Dom Lemercier and Mexican experiment with psychiatry and monasticism / article in Blackfriars by Rosemary Haughton / Sigmund Freud / P. Albert Plé's book, Chastity & Affectivity
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1967/11/06 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have not yet seen Rosemary Haughton's article that you refer to but perhaps the point about my |
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qualifies Batten's statement that Merton approves of Dom Lemercier / praised them as "small progressive Benedictine foundation before the matter of the group analysis" / group may have gone overboard but excommunication extreme / group analysis with qualified psychiatrist can be valid in Post-Conciliar years
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