The Church of NPR: Mother Teresa's a Destroyer, Mary Dalt an 'Icon'

By Tim Graham
January 10, 2010

Even obituaries can inform the public what the leftists at National Public Radio consider admirable. When Mother Teresa died in 1997, NPR stood out with a vicious obituary from anchor Scott Simon noting her "tolerance of tyrants and criminals" and her theology of "destructive comfort to keep people poor." Christopher Hitchens, who wrote a book-length attack on her, was welcomed to kick dirt on the memory of her.

On Tuesday, by contrast, NPR celebrated the life of "Catholic" scholar Mary Daly. No one was welcomed in to savage her. It was completely one-sided. She was, instead, "for many women, such as Sister Joan Chittister, a prominent nun, Daly was an icon."

This was a bit different than even the AP obituary, which more accurately called her "iconoclastic" in tone...the rest