That's it? My hometown newspaper has about that many people reading it. That's what all your blustering is about this seminal piece of Catholic publication? There's a billion Catholics, this continual rationalizing you've done on this thread is nothing more than pacifying the reactionary distancing the conservative Catholic majority has been having for years against the louder liberal Catholics. It is impossible. The left within the church is destined to go farther left, already making itself unrespectable.
As no doubt a subscriber yourself, I would expect nothing less than your defensiveness, however it appears misguided.
If you don't like the NCR, don't read it. In fact, why even come on a thread like this, except to bluster?