Book reviews and comments
Speaking the Unspeakable: The Assassination and Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
by
Edward Curtin
The Mysterious Death of Thomas Merton
by
Phillip F. Nelson
by
Matthew Fox
Bearing Witness to Thomas Merton
by
John Shuck
Thomas Merton: He Wasn't Electrocuted and He Didn't Take a Shower
by
Patrick Jamieson
The Shocking Death of Thomas Merton
by
James G. Bruen, Jr.
The Strange Case of the Monk in the Shower -
Questions Surrounding the Death of Thomas Merton
by
Patricia Lefevere
Unassailable !
-Brother Matthew Nyland O.S.B.
This is a marvelous book and very well researched,
-Sister Inez Marie Salfer, P.C.P.A.
I found your book fascinating and troubling. Your meticulous and extensive research brings out the many contradictions, changing statements, suspicious behavior and confusion surrounding his death and the “investigation” following it… The possibility of murder and a cover-up had never occurred to me, but is a totally believable conclusion after reading your book.
-Sister Mary Paul, O.P.
I am sure that your contribution to our symposium is going to reveal the hidden truth on Merton's death. Let us hope it will be successful.
-Father Bernard Sawicki, O.S.B.,
Coordinator Monastic Institute at the Pontifical Atheneum, Sant' Anselmo, Rome
Turley and Martin provide detail after detail refuting the false information that has been disseminated for five decades.
- Matthew Fox
Rome now has the beginnings of Father Merton's cause for sainthood.
Rev. Donald Brice, Archdiocese of Washington, DC
"Turley and Martin doggedly track down documents, past interviews, witnesses, written accounts, and anything else they can obtain relevant to the circumstances of Merton's death while trying to unravel the errors, confusion, and contradictions."
"[Merton biographers Michael] Mott and [John Howard] Griffin...
receive much of the authors' venom, and deservedly so."
- Culture Wars, December 2018
In a paper presented this summer in Rome at the Thomas Merton Symposium, David Martin and Hugh Turley presented the findings of their book, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation, which discloses photographic evidence and picks holes in the accidental electrocution story. - The Irish Times December 3, 2018