The comments in NCR are often mean-spirited, vile and mocking.  JPII, Benedict XVI, Archbishop Chaput, and Cardinal Burke  are routinely ridiculed and savaged.  Even Mother Teresa has been attacked by  some enlightened progressive Catholic commentators.  

NCR is guilty of every charge that is hurled against Church Militant.  When the archbishop of Detroit asked Church Militant to remove the label "Catholic" from its name, it complied.  The National Catholic Reporter has been asked by at least two bishops to remove "Catholic" from its masthead.  Of course, it has refused.