It was condemned by at least one Catholic Bishop (and myself ;)), so it is the largest anti-Catholic paper.
Besides, "largest" doesn't really mean anything in faith. God is not like Andy Greeley; He doesn't look at opinion polls, click and see how many people were saved in the Flood.
And it is read by countless other Catholic bishops, including many Cardinals at the Vatican.
If the NCR wasn't meeting a need, it would have gone out of business years ago.
Despite the fact that this information is 36 years old the state of the NCR (antiCatholic)has not changed one iota and the futility of good men in the hierarchy (Bishops,Cardinals and the Pope) speaking out while improving,still exists.
Maybe we could set a goal of getting this paper out of business by 2006? Two ideas that I would suggest is that everyone reading phx_rc's posts copy it and send it to their Bishop asking that they join with their brother Bishop,now deceased,in an act of collegiality,and ask them to request that all parishes and the chancery offeces in their diocese cancel subscriptions to it. There is not much that can be done about private subscribers but certainly no diocesan or parish monies should be used to support this rag.
The second thing we might try is to pray one decade of the rosary each day and dedicate it to Bishop Helmsing. We could pray for him if he is in Purgatory,that he be released so he can get upstairs and intercede for us. If he is already in heavn then we just ask him to intercede and get somebody upstairs to work on putting the NCR out of business or tell us what we can do.