Spiritual writer Thomas Merton is the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. Despite appearances to the contrary, in 1966 he was a troubled, lonely monk. Only when the suffering Merton fell madly in love with a student nurse, a forbidden, erotic affair condemned by the Catholic Church, would he discover whether his devotion to God was stronger than his dedication to the woman he called "a miracle in my life." Truly an inspirational story based on Merton's personal journals, new information and sources such as fellow monks, Beneath the Mask of Holiness presents a unique portrayal of the famous man, one never revealed in its entirety before.
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Mark Shaw
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Book I * Chapter One: "Perfect Freedom Equals Perfect Love" * Chapter Two: Margie
Book II * Chapter Three: The Orphan * Chapter Four: Visions of my Father * Chapter Five: Franciscan Denial * Chapter Six: Searching for the True Merton * Chapter Seven: Freedom Seeker * Chapter Eight: People Think I Am Happy * Chapter Nine: Dancing in the Waters of Life
Book III * Chapter Ten: The Other Side of the Story * Chapter Eleven: Calamity at Cambridge * Chapter Twelve: The Columbia Days * Chapter Thirteen: Tears of Rage
Book IV * Chapter Fourteen: Questions and Answers * Chapter Fifteen: Merton the Christian * Chapter Sixteen: Substitute Mothers and Lovers
Book V * Chapter Seventeen: We Are Terribly In Love * Chapter Eighteen: Margie Loves You and Will Always Love You * Chapter Nineteen: Margie or God * Chapter Twenty: Broken Vows * Chapter Twenty-One: The New Merton * Chapter Twenty-Two: Merton's Legacy