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...never occurred to me that I was no longer a Catholic. I was a sinner--that much I knew. But the church, I was taught, was for sinners, not saints. And for all its many faults, I still trusted the church, revered it. Even when it inflicted real pain, when it callously treated women as second-class Catholics, when it wounded good people in bad marriages, when it penetrated into the souls of young gay kids and made them hate themselves, I knew that it was a human institution on a divine mission. Human institutions fail. But, I reminded myself...
...delve into the latest research, let's define a few terms. Though we all have our own intuitive sense of what the words stress and fear mean, scientists use these words in very specific ways. For them, stress is an external stimulus that signals danger, often by causing pain. Fear is the short-term response such stresses produce in men, women or lab rats. Anxiety has a lot of the same symptoms as fear, but it's a feeling that lingers long after the stress has lifted and the threat has passed...
...this point, the other half of the stress signal has reached the cortex, which confirms that there's a danger present and figures out that it's causing pain. Once the shock has warn off, a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex sends out an all-clear message and lets the amygdala know that it's O.K. to stand down. At least it's supposed to. It seems that it's harder to turn off a stress response than to turn it on. This makes sense, in terms of survival. After all, it's better to panic unnecessarily...
...long as he is true to his vows of celibacy [RELIGION, May 20]. The real scandal in the church is how the hierarchy has swept under the rug the actions of pedophile priests. Being homosexual should not be equated with being a pedophile. This misleading connotation is causing great pain to many gays and to innocent priests. JOYCE RHODY Albert Lea, Minn...
...Department of Commerce, foreigners invested $281 billion in the U.S. In 2001, however, the level of investment sank to $149 billion. While the strong dollar has allowed the U.S. to max out its national credit card with purchases overseas, the currency imbalance is starting to cause pain in the U.S. "There are signs that the U.S. economy is struggling hard because of the strong dollar," says Harmen Lehment, a currency analyst at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. "The strong dollar is not in the interest of U.S. policy." That in part explains why the U.S. government has slapped tariffs...