Thomas Merton
While living at the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Kentucky, she became friends with Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Merton shared with her some of the works he was not allowed to publish. After Merton's death in 1968 she co-founded the International Thomas Merton Society and also established the Thomas Merton Center for Creative Exchange in Denver in 1979 where Merton's spirituality and writings came to be known by many. She gave Merton retreats and co-founded a Buddhist-Christian dialogue/meditation group in Denver. Tobin invited such theological luminaries as Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P., and Fr. Bernard Häring, C.Ss.R., to lecture at Loretto. She was an actress in the TV special: Merton: A Film Biography of Thomas Merton.
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