![]() ![]() Lawrence and whose poetry could get published by New Directions. ![]() One had heard of the high Anglican who took the final step or of the Presbyterian who “came over,” but converts from Merton's pre-Catholic world were (and still are) rare: the world of the high-level New York intellectual, the kind who went to Columbia, knew Mark Van Doren, read D. As a catch, Merton was something special. At that time, before ecumenism was much heard of, the convert was a special kind of hero, celebrated, publicized, and taken as living proof that Catholicism need not just be a matter of birth and tribal origin, but could persuade even the outsider. His first acclaim came with his conversion, recorded in The Seven Storey Mountain. Thomas Merton has always occupied a special place in the American Catholic Church, though for different reasons at different times. ![]()
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