On NPR this morning, Brian Naylor noted Henry Hyde’s personal likeability, then remarked that his “unwavering and vehement opposition to abortion earned him the enmity of many abortion-rights activists.” Then anchor Renee Montagne commented that John Paul II “often had little patience with theologians who questioned his teachings.” In the piece, after discussing Curran, reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty said, “Over the years, other free-thinking theologians experienced similar fates.”