Poet James Merrill once described his fellow writer Elizabeth Bishop as ldquo a genius masquerading as an ordinary woman rdquo I thought of that line after spending two days this past summer working on a profile for PBS-TV rsquo s nbsp Religion amp Ethics NewsWeekly nbsp on the Quaker folk sing

As reported in America rsquo s Sept 29th Current Comment ldquo Protecting Human Dignity rdquo nbsp California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the country rsquo s first ldquo affirmative consent rdquo bill mandating that sexual partners on state college campuses must give ldquo affir

Thank you to Michael Paul Gallagher S J in Rome for sending this translation of the homily Pope Francis delivered during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Jesuit restoration The Vespers service took place on Saturday September 27 at the Gesu Church in Rome You can read more about

ldquo Nothing like this has happened in Hong Kong before I rsquo m just praying that it won rsquo t become like Tiananmen the situation is similar in many ways nbsp We must pray this does not happen rdquo This is what Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun told me by phone from Hong Kong on the evening

Paypal founder discusses what it means to have 'faith in the technological future.'