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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Belden, Albert David, Rev. Dr.".
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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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1963/11/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thank you for your very kind letter of October 19th. I am sorry to have delayed in answering, but I |
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agrees to sign Belden's Pax Christi Plan / unreasonable nature of war and need for abolishment / Catholics and ecclesiastical authority / friendship with Archbishop Roberts and Norman Cousins / Merton can't promise activism because of his monastic life and some of his works censored / international arms agreement
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1964/05/09 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I want to answer your good letter as quickly as possible because if I leave it in the drawer my mind |
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Pax Christi / suggests Archbishop Roberts, S.J., who is involved in such issues for the Second Vatican Council; Fr. Bernard Häring, C.SS.R.; James Laughlin at New Directions for support; John Heidbrink at FOR for publication / in writing about war, not in touch with Rome - discouraged by institutional aspect
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