Just what good would come from the Knights giving funding to the paper that is (de facto) Pravda for what is now a rump faction supporting dissident post-catholicism of Weakland, Dearden, Hunthausen, Bernardin, and Co.? 

That stuff doesn't bring people to Christ, not even to its distorted idea of what He is and what His gospel was!  It's as sterile and failed as the formerly-"Mainline" protestantism it imitates.  Even if there was some good in the Knights funding an oppositional paper, throwing money at aging Boomer dissidents is throwing it down a hole.

Shenanigans like the sex abuse scandal recently reported in Minnesota show the continuing need for an independent paper, but its ideological commitments mean NCR doesn't meet the need!