text: I don't think the assertion is factual ("helps you analyze").
  
  There's very little content here that would spur on analysis.  
  
  NCR might help one get "an emotional" sense for how dissenting Catholics feel, but analysis of the zeitgeist?  
  
  There are 3 levels to think about:
  
  Surface/Superficial;  sense orientation, emotional reactions....
  
  Substantial:  enduring truths, principles, concepts, relationships, essential questions, virtues. 
  
  Supernatural:  God, Grace, the soul, heaven, health, life, death.
  
  Now...let's think about the level that NCR tends to gravitate toward.
  
  85% surface/emotion/"protest sign" level
  
  10% substantial topics
  
  5% supernatural.
  
  That's why I am not yet a paying member of NCR.