| Author Quoted | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| Title Quoted | Divine Milieu |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/11/14 |
| Imprint | New York : [s.n.]. 1957 |
| Quotation | Dom Gabriel [Sortais, the Abbot General], after consulting a professor in Rome, has refused permission to print an article I wrote on Teilhard de Chardin's Divine Milieu. A book in itself "harmless" they admit. But one must not say anything in favor of T. de C. One must "make the silenc" regarding T. de C. The decision means little to me one way or the other, and I can accept it without difficulty. Less easily the stuffy authoritarianism of Dom Gabriel, who cannot help being an autocrat, even while multiplying protestations of love. I rebel against being treated as a "property," as an "instrument" and as a "thing" by the Superiors of this Order. He definitely insists that I think as he thinks, for to think with him is to "think with the church." To many this would seem quite obvious. Is it not the formula they follow in Moscow? |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 64 |
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