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40 William H. Shannon Bibliography 17 1967 Christian Conscience. Guide 219 (June-July 1967): 3-9. 1968 The Christian and the Law, Religion Teacher s Journal 2 (October 1968). 1970 The Lively Debate: Response to Humanae Vitae. New York, Sheed & Ward, 1970. viii, 216p. 1977 Perspective on Sin. The Priest (January 1977): 27-31. Word Out of Silence. [Merton] Review for Religious 36.4 (July 1977): 576-582. 1978 Thomas Merton and the Discovery of the Real Self. Cistercian Studies 13.4 (1978): 298-308. REPRINT: The Message of Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick Hart OCSO. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications,1981: 192-203. The Uniqueness of Christian Morality, Sisters Today (February 1978). Contemplation and the Sacraments, Sisters Today (June-July 1978). 1980 Lent: The Sacrament of Conversion and Reconciliation, Sisters Today (March 1980). 1981 Thomas Merton s Dark Path: The Inner Experience of a Contemplative. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. vii, 245p. Thomas Merton and Freedom. Cithara [St Bonaventure University] 20.2 (May 1981): 24-37. 1983 Review of Thomas Merton: Pilgrim in Process, edited by Donald Grayston & Michael Higgins. Merton Seasonal 8.3 (Autumn 1983): 8-9. 1984 Many Mertons. Review of The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, by Michael Mott and Follow the Ecstasy, by John Howard Griffin. Commonweal 111 (19 October 1984): 560, 562-563. 1985 The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns, selected and edited with an introduction by William H. Shannon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. xiv, 669p. Introduction, ix-xii. William Shannon and the Merton Letters: The First Selection. Report by Robert E. Daggy on The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters of Thomas Merton. Merton Seasonal 10.3 (Summer 1985): 2-3. Thomas Merton s First Article on War and Peace [ The Root of War ]. Merton Seasonal 10.3 (Summer 1985): 4-5. Review of The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, by Michael Mott. Grail: An Ecumenical Journal [Canada] 1.4 (December 1985): 91-93. 1986 Is Dissent a Curse or a Charism? National Catholic Reporter (April 1986). [Author s original title Dissent: A New Charism in the Catholic Church? ] All-the-Things-You-Wanted-to-Know-About-Merton. Review of Thomas Merton: A Comprehensive Bibliography, by Marquita E. Breit and Robert E. Daggy. Merton Seasonal 11.3 (Summer 1986): 16-17.

41 William H. Shannon Bibliography 18 1987 Thomas Merton s Dark Path. Revised edn [ A Prologue: Six Years Later (pp. vii-xxiii) has been added.] New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. xxiii, 245p. An Open Letter to Archbishop John R. Quinn. America (21 March 1987): 238-240. Thomas Merton and the Quest for Self-Identity. Cistercian Studies 22.2 (1987): 172-189. God is not Elected, but People Are. America 157.6 (12-19 September 1987): 136-138. 1988 Seeking the Face of God: An Approach to Christian Prayer and Spirituality. New York: Crossroad, 1988. x, 174p. Thomas Merton, in Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Eight, 1966-1970, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 430-432. New York/London: Charles Scribner s Sons/Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1988. Thomas Merton and the Living Tradition of Faith. Merton Annual 1 (1988): 79-102. The Year of the Cold War Letters. [Merton] Toward an Integrated Humanity, (Essays in honor of Thomas Merton, edited by Basil Pennington OCSO), 166-178. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1988. Christian Living in an Age of Technology, in Toward an Integrated Humanity (Essays in honor of Thomas Merton, edited by Basil Pennington OCSO), 179-191. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1988. A Response to Archbishop Quinn in Vatican and Homosexuality, 20-27. New York: Crossroad, 1988. Kinzie on Merton. National Catholic Reporter 24.21 (18 March 1988) [Letters to the Editor by Joseph Kalwinski, William H. Shannon and Christopher Nugent, re: Collared by the Church, by Charles E. Kinzie], 24-25. Letter from William H. Shannon, March 19, 1988. Merton Seasonal 13.2. (Spring 1988) [Re: the new International Thomas Merton Society], 3-4. Merton s Letters to Dorothy Day, edited by William Shannon. The Roundtable (Summer 1988): 11. [See also 1996: The Correspondence of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. ] The Bishops Pastoral Letter on Women. America 159.4 (6-13 August 1988): 84-86. One Monk: Many Images. [Merton] America 159.11 (22 October 1988): 268-272. The Future of Thomas Merton: Sorting Out the Legacy. Commonweal 115.21 (2 December 1988): 649-652. Merton s Quest for True Freedom. Cistercian Studies 23 (1988): On Thomas Merton, Brother Monk by Basil Pennington OCSO. Bulletin #254, 232-233. Review of Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with Icons (1987), by Henri Nouwen, Cistercian Studies 23.4 (1988) 255-256. 1989 Preface in The Road to Joy: The Letters of Thomas Merton to New and Old Friends, edited by Robert E. Daggy, vi-vii. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. Review of Merton and Walsh on the Person, by Robert Imperato (Lake Worth: Sunday Publications, 1988). Merton Annual 2 (1989): 323-326. NO Thomas Merton. Review of Up and Down Merton s Mountain, by Gerald Groves (St Louis: CBP Press, 1988). Merton Seasonal 14.2 (Spring 1989): 20-22.

42 William H. Shannon Bibliography 19 1989 cont d Merton: Church and Synagogue. Lecture at the 1989 First ITMS Conference, 1989, in the session Merton and Ecumenism. See also Thomas Merton and Judaism, 1990. The Farmer From Nelson County. [Presidential Address, ITMS First General Meeting, 25 May 1989.] Merton Seasonal 14.3 (Summer 1989): 3-7. Thomas Merton s Three Gifts: A Review Essay. Review of The Road to Joy: The Letters of Thomas Merton to New and Old Friends, edited by Robert E. Daggy, and Thomas Merton s Art of Denial, by David Cooper. America 161.11 (21 October 1989): 267-273, 275-277. More Merton Journals. Cistercian Studies 24 (1989) Bulletin #296, 270-272: Review of A Vow of Conversation: Journals 1964-1965, by Thomas Merton, edited by Naomi Burton Stone. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988). 1990 Preface in The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction, edited by Patrick Hart OCSO, vii-viii. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. Original Blessing: The Gift of the True Self. The Way [London] 30.1 (January 1990): 37-46. Review of The Way of Paradox: Spiritual Life as Taught by Meister Eckhart (1988), by Cyprian Smith. Cistercian Studies 25.1 (1990) 378-79. Thomas Merton and Judaism. America 163.9 (6 October 1990): 218, 220-222. [See also 2003.] Review of John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers. America 163.15 (17 November 1990): 377. Review of Why Catholics Can t Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste, by Thomas Day. America 163.15 (17 November 1990): 377-378. Review of New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha. America 163.15 (17 Nov 1990): 378. The Spirituality of Thomas Merton. Cistercian Studies 25.3 (1990): 233-245. 1991 Silence on Fire: The Prayer of Awareness. New York: Crossroad, 1991. 184p. Letter to Merton Friends in Tulsa about the Second General Meeting of the ITMS. Monos [Tulsa OK] 3.4 (April-May 1991): 9. Thomas Merton and the Struggle for Equality of Black and Native Americans. [Lecture at the 1991 ITMS conference, in session Merton and the Human Community. ] A Life without Care. Homily 14 June 1991. [Address to Second General Meeting of ITMS.] Merton Seasonal 16.3 (Summer 1991): 18-20. Praying in the Dark. Democrat and Chronicle [Rochester NY] (1 June 1991): 4C. Interview by Kathleen Schwar. [On Patriotism]. The Nation (July 1991). [Contribution to a group of articles on patriotism for the 125th anniversary issue.] Are There Any More Priests Out There? America 165.10 (12 October 1991): 240-242. 1992 Silent Lamp: The Thomas Merton Story. Foreword by A.M. Allchin. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992. xvi, 304p. Christian Conscience and Modern Warfare, America 166.5 (15 February 1992): 108-112. Merton Later Modified Views in Regard to Catholic Schools. Reply to Mary E. Quinn. Catholic Courier [Rochester NY] (5 March 1992): 4.

43 William H. Shannon Bibliography 20 1992 cont d An Unusual Discovery in a Second-Hand Bookstore in England. Merton Seasonal 17.3 (Summer 1992): 4-6. A Valuable Book. Review of Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master: The Essential Writings, edited by Lawrence Cunningham (New York: Paulist Press, 1992). The Merton Seasonal 17.4 (Autumn 1992): 22-24. 1993 Preface in The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers, edited by Christine M. Bochen, vii-viii. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. Contemplation, Contemplative Prayer ; Future ; Humility ; Intuition, The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, ed. MichaeI Downey. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993: 209-14; 432-35; 516-18; 555. Review of Thomas Merton as Writer and Monk: A Cultural Study 1915-1951, by Peter Kountz (Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1991). Catholic Historical Review 79.1 (January 1993): 137-138. Merton s Gift: Contemplation for Action. Church (Winter 1993): 12-15. Solitude, Way to Reality: Thomas Merton s Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude. [Springboard address at the third ITMS conference, 1993.] The Catechism of the Catholic Church. America 168.20 (5-12 June 1993): 6-10. Living in the Presence of God Series God is Everywhere; How Do We Experience God s Presence? Praying 56 (September-October 1993): 9-10. God is Mystery? Yes, That s Precisely the Point! Praying 57 (November-December 1993): 11-12. 1994 Living in the Presence of God Series (continued) God is Always Present, But We re Not Always Aware. Praying 58 (January-February 1994): 9-10. To Find Out Who You Are, the Thing to Do is Learn to Be. Praying 59 (March-April 1994): 9-10. The Unknown we Find in Ourselves is the Unknown we Meet in Others. Praying 60 (May-June 1994): 9-10. The Awareness to Remember: Everything s Oneness in God. Praying 61 (July-August 1994): 9-10. Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis, selected and edited by William H. Shannon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. xii, 352p. Introduction, vii-xii. Reflections on Thomas Merton s Article: Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude. Cistercian Studies Quarterly 29.1 (1994): 83-99. No Circuit-Rider Priests, Please. America 170.13 (16 April 1994): 9-11. Exploring the New Catechism Series What is the New Catechism? How Can it Help You? Exploring the New Catechism Series, 1. Catholic Update (1994). Repeated as Introduction in Exploring the Catechism of the Catholic Church (ECC): What is the Catechism of the Catholic Church? The God Whom Our Hearts Seek. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 2. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 1 in ECC. Who is Jesus Christ? Exploring the New Catechism Series, 3. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 2 of ECC: Jesus Christ, Son of God.

44 William H. Shannon Bibliography 21 1994 cont d What is Church? Exploring the New Catechism 4 (1994). Chapter 3 of ECC What Is the Church? The Sacraments of Christian Initiation. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 5. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 5 in ECC. The Holy Eucharist (What Time is Church?) Exploring the New Catechism Series, 6. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 6 in ECC. Sacraments of Healing: Reconciliation and Anointing. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 7. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 7 in ECC as Sacraments of Healing: Reconciliation and the Anointing of the Sick. Sacraments of Service: Holy Orders and Matrimony. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 8. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 8 in ECC as Sacraments in the Service of Community: Holy Orders and Matrimony. Christian Morality: Choosing the Good. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 9. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 9 in ECC as Love: The Basis of Christian Morality. Ten Commandments of Love. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 10. Catholic Update, (1994). Chapter 10 in ECC, as The Commandments and Christian Morality. Why do we Pray? Exploring the New Catechism Series, 11. Catholic Update (1994). Chapter 11 in ECC Christian Prayer. 1995 Exploring the New Catechism Series (cont d) The Lord s Prayer. Exploring the New Catechism Series, 12. Catholic Update (1995). Chapter 12 in ECC. Exploring the Catechism of the Catholic Church [ECC]. Saint Anthony Messenger Press and Franciscan (1995). 140p. Passion for Peace: The Social Essays, by Thomas Merton. Edited with an introduction by William H. Shannon. New York: Crossroad, 1995. vii, 338p. Introduction, 1-7. Thomas Merton: Contemplative Spirituality as Lived Wisdom. Catholic Library World 65.4 (April-May-June 1995): 16-22. Eucharistic Revolutions. America 172.18 (20 May 1995): 20-21. Newspaper report: Searching Merton s Path for Clues to Spiritual Life: Noted Scholar [William H. Shannon] Leads. by Karen R. Long. Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (29 April 1995): 6-E. Roundtable participant in the session Editing the Merton Letters, at the fourth ITMS Conference, 1995. New Horizons for an Old Journey : No Man is an Island, A Review Forty Years Later. Merton Seasonal 20.1 (Winter 1995): 16-18. Review of Corrective Vision: Explorations in Moral Theology, by Richard Arthur McCormick. America 173.18 (2 December 1995): 27-28. 1996 Seeds of Peace: Contemplation and Nonviolence. New York: Crossroad, 1996. vi, 181p. Preface in Index to the Published Letters of Thomas Merton by Patricia A. Burton (Thomas Merton Society of Rochester, 1996), i-ii. The Correspondence of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, edited and introduced by William H. Shannon in American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, edited by Anne Klejment & Nancy L. Roberts, 99-121. (Westport: Praeger, 1996). [See also 1988: Merton s Letters to Dorothy Day. ]

45 William H. Shannon Bibliography 22 1996 cont d Part of: Review Symposium of Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation, 1939-1941. Merton Journals vol. 1, edited by Patrick Hart OCSO (HarperSanFrancisco, 1996). Merton Annual 9 (1996): 298-303. Tradition and the Ordination of Women. America 174.5 (17 February 1996): 8-9. 1997 Something of a Rebel: Thomas Merton, His Life and Works; An Introduction. Cincinnati: St Anthony Messenger Press, 1997. 200p. Can One be a Contemplative in a Technological Society? Merton Seasonal 22.1 (Spring 1997): 12-20. Something of a Rebel: Thomas Merton. St Anthony Messenger 105.4 (1997): 10-14. Thomas Merton To Russia with Love. America 177.16 (22 November 1997): 16-17. 1998 A Note to the Reader. The Seven Storey Mountain (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition), xix-xxiii. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1998. The Seven Storey Mountain: Fifty Years Old. Merton Seasonal 23.3 (Fall 1998): 3-11. Merton Needs No One to Apologize for Him [Letter to Editor]. Wall Street Journal (20 October 1988). Life s Liturgy and Parish Liturgy. Church 14 (1998): 24-27. 1999 Anselm: The Joy of Faith. New York: Crossroad, 1999. 189p. Merton and His Abbot. Letter to the Editor. Tablet [London] (2 January 1999): 14-15. Advent: Preparing for the Great Jubilee. St. Anthony Messenger 107.7 (December 1999): 12-16. With You I Am a Christian. America 180.20 (5-12 June 1999): 12-13. 2000 Silence on Fire: The Prayer of Awareness. New York: Crossroad, 1991. 184p. Revised edition (April 2000). Thomas Merton s Paradise Journey: Writings on Contemplation. [ A substantial revision of Thomas Merton s Dark Path. ] Cincinnati: St Anthony Messenger Press and Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 2000. 307p. Review of Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision, by Lawrence Cunningham (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999). Catholic Historical Review 86.3 (July 2000): 534-535. The Resurrection: How We Know It s True. Catholic Update (2000): 1-4. The Future of the Papacy. Catholic Update (April 2000): 1-4. The Church of the Future. St. Anthony Messenger 108.5 (October 2000): 24-28. Review of Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, by Garry Wills. St Anthony Messenger 108 (2000): 54-55. 2001 Eucharist: Understanding Christ s Body. Catholic Update (June 2001). How the Spirit Guides the Church: Two Views in Matthew and John. Catholic Update (2001): 1-3. 2002 The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, by William H. Shannon, Christine M. Bochen and Patrick F. O Connell. Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 2002. xx, 556 p.

46 William H. Shannon Bibliography 23 2003 The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation, by Thomas Merton. Edited with an introduction by William H. Shannon. San Francisco: HarperSanfrancisco xvi, 176p. Thomas Merton in Dialogue with Eastern Religions in The Vision of Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick F. O Connell, 211-223. (Notre Dame IN: Ave Maria Press, 2003) Thomas Merton and Judaism. Merton and Judaism: Holiness in Words: Recognition, Repentance, and Renewal, edited by Beatrice Bruteau. (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2003): 57-65. [See also 1990.] Interview: Christine M. Bochen and Victor A. Kramer. From Faith to Joy: Studying the Church and Thomas Merton: An Interview with William H. Shannon. The Merton Annual 16 (2003): 85-110. An Open Letter to the Bishops of the United States. The American Catholic 10.6 (January-February 2003): 7. Commendably Comprehensive Compilation. Review of About Merton : Secondary Sources 1945-2000: A Bibliographic Workbook by Marquita E. Breit, Patricia A. Burton and Paul M. Pearson. Merton Seasonal. 28.1 (Spring 2003): 26-27. The Liturgy of the Eucharist. Catholic Update (May 2003): 1-4. Who Am I to Stand in God s Way?: Reflections on Optional Celibacy. The American Catholic 11.2 (August-September 2003): 5. 2004 Review of Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart; The Eastern Church, edited by Bernadette Dieker and Jonathan Montaldo (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2004). Cistercian Studies Quarterly 39.1 (2004): 97-99. Review of Love s Redeeming Work. The Anglican Quest for Holiness, by Geoffrey Rowell (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Cistercian Studies Quarterly 39.1 (2004): 90-91. The Holy Spirit in the Church. Scripture from Scratch (May 2004). Today s Church: A Look in the Mirror. Vatican II Today (November 2004) [The publication Vatican II Today was a four-page newsletter published from March 2004 to February 2005 in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Vatican II. All 12 issues were also available on-line.] Our Church: Called to be a Sign of Joy and Hope in Vatican II Today [a book made from the newsletter series, edited by Judy Ball and Joan McKamey], 89-96. (Cincinnati: St Anthony Messenger Press, 2005.) 2005 Here on the Way to There: A Catholic Perspective on Dying and What Follows. Cincinnati: St Anthony Messenger Press (January 2005). 170p. (pbk) Thomas Merton: An Introduction. Cincinnati OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005. xiv, 199p. Revised edition of Something of a Rebel (1997). Review of Peace in the Post-Christian Era by Thomas Merton (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2004). Cistercian Studies Quarterly 40.3 (2005): 344-346. Communion of Saints: Key to the Eucharist. Catholic Update (2005). Seven Shifts in the Church. St Anthony Messenger 113.6 (2005): 12. What Did Jesus Mean? Series Finding God s Kingdom. Everyday Catholic (January 2005): 1,4. Can We Love Our Enemies? Everyday Catholic (February 2005): 1,4. Winning, Losing for Jesus. Everyday Catholic (March 2005): 1,4. How to Really Forgive. Everyday Catholic (April 2005): 1,4.

47 William H. Shannon Bibliography 24 2006 Cold War Letters by Thomas Merton, edited by Christine M. Bochen and William H. Shannon. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2006. xxxiv, 206p. Passion for Peace (abridged edn). New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2006. The Role of the Priest (Letter to the Editor). Commonweal (22 March 2006). 2007 Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude. Russian translation by Andrei V. Kirilenkov with appendices by James Conner OCSO and William H. Shannon. Moscow: Idel Press, 2007. x, 90p. Review of Thomas Merton: Prophet of Renewal, by John Eudes Bamberger OCSO. Catholic Historical Review 93.1 (January 2007): 213-214. Tracking the Pilgrim of the Transcendental. Review of Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton, by Morgan Atkinson (Louisville: Duckworks, Inc., 2007) (1 videodisc, 67 minutes). Merton Seasonal 32.3 (Fall 2007): 33-34. Men and Women Who Changed the Church. Update Your Faith (March 2007). (Alternate title Three Saints Who Changed the Church. ) 2008 Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters; The Essential Collection, selected, edited and introduced by William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008. xiv, 402p. Already One : Mystical Union and Religious Pluralism. Merton Journal 15.1 (Eastertide 2008): 7-11. The Future of Thomas Merton: A Progress Report. Reprint from Commonweal 115.21 (2 December 1988): 649-652, as The Future of Thomas Merton: Sorting Out the Legacy. Merton Seasonal 33.4 (2008), 3-11. [NOTE: Another 20-year update is added to the original Commonweal article.] 2009 Exploring Our Faith. (Broadcast on Franciscan Radio: program #09-17, Airdate April 20, 2009). Interview available on-line. Foreword in Seasons of Celebration: Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts, by Thomas Merton, with a foreword by William H. Shannon. Notre Dame IN: Ave Maria Press, September 2009. Corpus Christi 2009: Closing Homily of the ITMS Eleventh General Meeting. Merton Seasonal 34.3 (2009): 11-13. 2012 How to Become a Christian Even If You Already Are One. Rochester: William H. Shannon, 2012. 186p. [Available from the Sisters of St Joseph, Rochester NY] #