Greg Hillis

Prior to reading Pope Francis' "C'est la confiance," his recently published Apostolic Exhortation on St Thérèse of Lisieux, I was not aware of what Pope Benedict XVI said about how theologians should emulate her. Beautiful and convicting: www.vatican.va/content/bene...

A convert’s journey with St. John Henry Newman Like Newman, I am a convert to Roman Catholicism, but it is the way Newman converted that is most important to me.

On this feast of St John Henry Newman, here's something I wrote for America magazine about being present in St. Peter's Square for his canonization www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/1...

Remembering Thomas Merton—and his book that changed my life 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' a book whose 75th anniversary is celebrated this month, is widely considered a spiritual classic, and it continues to find new readers every year.

ICYMI: My piece on how Thomas Merton’s autobiography, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, got me through a vocational crisis 25 years ago (and how I ended up with a tattoo of a Merton drawing) www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...

That's a fantastic pile of books.

Remembering Thomas Merton—and his book that changed my life 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' a book whose 75th anniversary is celebrated this month, is widely considered a spiritual classic, and it continues to find new readers every year.

Thomas Merton's autobiography, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, was published 75 years ago this week. I wrote about the impact the book had on me years ago when, as a young man, I was in the throes of a crisis of vocation (I also discuss my Merton tattoo 😳) www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...

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