text: When one's ideological opponents are neck-deep in hypocrisy, and chin-deep in irony, the pleasure is almost unspeakable.  Here, NCR --- where the core of its Catholicism is to challenge the Pope and the magisterium ---
  publishes a full-bore defense of AL, based on the premise that to reject the Pope on matters of faith and morals is profoundly anti-Catholic.  If NCR were to accept Walford's contention, it would have to fire its entire staff, including the one who was previously fired from America Magazine.