CONTENTS Preface Christopher Columbus Thomas Merton Plans for an 18th-Century Benedictine Settlement in Western Pennsylvania: Bishop John Carroll and the English Benedictine Congregation Rene Kollar, OSB The Carmelites: The First Women Religious in the Original Thirteen States Mother Mary Joseph Norweb, OCD The Cistercians S.O. in the United States at the 500 Mark M. Basil Pennington, OCSO Benedictine Nuns in the United States Judith Sutera, OSB Dominican Nuns in the United States Sister Mary Jeremiah, OP Benedictine Stability on the North Dakota Frontier Terrence Kardong, OSB A Conflict of Mitres: The Diverse Polities and Cathedral Abbey of Bishop Leo Haid Paschal Baumstein, OSB “And Who Is My Neighbor?” St. Vincent Archabbey Responds to its Neighbors in the Depression William A. Beaver, OSB Thomas Merton: The Vigilance of Desire John Albert, OCSO iv / Contents Cistercian Scrapbook Mother Agnes Day, OCSO Putting Out Roots to the Stream: On Reading the Monastic Story Kurt Belsole, OSB he AS