The International Thomas Merton Society, founded in 1987, is a learned society which studies the works of American Catholic writer and mystic Thomas Merton. It sponsors conferences and co-publishes a journal, The Merton Seasonal. The society and the Thomas Merton Center are located at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.

• CBC Radio, Ideas: Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton Radio documentary mentions that some interviews about Merton were recorded at a meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society.
• Catholic News Service, January 7, 2005 - "Thomas Merton scholars upset by monk's absence in upcoming catechism" By Carol Zimmermann

• International Thomas Merton Society Official site.