| Parental rights issues in education highlighted |
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TORONTO, Aug. 27, 2010 - As students return to school in the coming weeks, several ongoing situations pose challenges for the rights of parents in education, and the Catholic nature of publicly-funded Catholic schools. In British Columbia, an agreement in 2006 between the B.C. Ministry of Education and two homosexual activists, Murray Corren and the late Peter Corren, requires boards to make curriculum materials as “gay friendly” as possible. It also created a new social justic |
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| Better knowledge of lack of abortion law needed, says League |
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| TORONTO, August 4, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on a new survey showing that as many as two-thirds of Canadians do not know that Canada has no abortion law.The Angus Reid poll, which asked 1,022 Canadian adults a variety of questions about their views on abortion, including their understanding of the country’s law, found that just 22 per cent of them correctly identified the legal void that permits the procedure throughout pregnancy, with no government rest |
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| Census should retain religion question, says League |
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| OTTAWA, July 7, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on changes being made by Statistics Canada to the next federal census, including its decision to exclude religious affiliation information from the mandatory portion of the 2011 census. Instead, the information will be gathered in the voluntary National Household Survey (NHS), which will replace the long form of the Canadian census that to date was sent to 20% of Canadian households. The new NHS will be sent to a |
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| CCRL congratulates Cardinal Ouellet |
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| TORONTO, ON June 30, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League congratulates Cardinal Marc Ouellet on his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and President of the Commission for Latin America.“The League has always appreciated Cardinal Ouellet’s support for expressing the teachings of the Church in the public forum,” said Philip Horgan, president of CCRL. “Despite criticism for upholding the Catholic vision of respect for life from conception to nat |
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| League celebrates Silver Anniversary |
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| TORONTO, June 12, 2010 - The advocacy and education work of the Catholic Civil Rights League is needed now more than ever, Rev. Raymond J. de Souza told those attending the League’s June 10 anniversary gala. Noting that the media has grown rapidly and embraced new technologies in the past 25 years, Father de Souza said that while there are better sources for news and commentary about the Church available now, there is also greater potential for bias and falsehood to spread in an instant.Fa |
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| League pleased with Quebec court decision on religious education |
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| MONTREAL, Que., June 21, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that the Quebec Superior Court has upheld the right of Loyola High School to be exempt from a provincial government requirement that it teach the new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) course as mandated by Québec's Education Dept. The League hopes, however, that parents and students in all schools will be offered the same degree of choice in religious education. “While we are pleased that this r |
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| Catholic bashing always seems to be fair game |
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| Cardinal Ouellet and Archbishop Prendergast’s recent call for aid to be provided to pregnant women who want to keep their babies pretty much got dismissed the same way as Cardinal Ouellet’s statements a week before, albeit with less venom. There was nothing startling in the remarks themselves, but the statement of Cardinal Ouellet, in particular, drew an unusual degree of hostility from politicians and journalists, with only a few of the latter taking the opportunity to uphold his ri |
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| Suzanne Lavallee receives CCRL honour |
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| TORONTO, ON June 2, 2010 - The Catholic Civil Rights League is happy to announce that Suzanne Lavallee of Drummondville, Quebec, is this year’s winner of the League’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The award will be presented at the League’s Silver Anniversary dinner Thursday, June 10. The evening will include a talk by Rev. Raymond De Souza, National Post columnist and priest of the Kingston archdiocese, and honours for the League’s f |
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| Religious rights upheld, but concern remains, in Christian Horizons decision |
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| TORONTO, May 26, 2010 (CCRL) - The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that the Ontario Superior Court has affirmed the right of Christian Horizons group homes to hire staff who meet faith requirements, but noted that the ruling still upheld some interference in that right by upholding a complaint of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In a broader context, the League remains concerned that a human rights tribunal has been allowed to interpret religious |
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| Columnist’s remarks hateful, says League |
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| MONTREAL, QC, May 19, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today called on La Presse newspaper to distance itself from some remarks by one of its columnists, Patrick Lagace, who Tuesday expressed the wish that Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec and Catholic Primate of Canada, would “die a slow and painful death.”Cardinal Ouellet addressed a pro-life rally on the weekend. Among other remarks, he lauded the exclusion of abortion from Canada’s proposed G8 initiat |
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| League pleased that extended retail openings bid stalls |
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| TORONTO, May 13, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that Toronto City Council voted yesterday to defer a proposal to give retailers the option to open 365 days a year, in keeping with a motion by the city’s economic development committee. The proposal would have allowed stores to open on all statutory holidays, including Christmas Day, New Year’s, Good Friday. As we noted in a statement to our membership and to the mayor and council, it’s impossible to pre |
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| Quebec schools’ case may be heard in SCC |
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| MONTREAL, April 29, 2010 - A Quebec couple who unsuccessfully sought an exemption from the province’s ethics and religious culture course has applied for leave to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. The League is among the educational and religious organizations that are supporting the application, in recognition of the rights of parents to direct their children’s religious education. Suzanne Lavallée and Daniel Jutras of Drummondville, Québec, contend that |
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| G-8 pledge welcome but changes little, says League |
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| OTTAWA, April 27, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that Canada will not fund abortion services as part of a G8 initiative to improve the health of women and children in poor countries. As G8 officials arrived in Halifax for talks on the maternal health initiative Monday, International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda said other Group of Eight nations can finance projects that include abortion if they choose to do so, but Canada won’t. She added that Canada |
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| League pleased that Bill C-384 is unsuccessful |
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| OTTAWA, April 22, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed gratitude that Bill C-384, which would have liberalized euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, has not received enough support to proceed. The measure was defeated yesterday in the House of Commons by a vote of 228 to 59. The League would like to thank every Member of Parliament who voted against Bill C-384. We would also like to thank all of our supporters who helped achieve this result through their messag |
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| League supports Bill seeking to end abortion coercion |
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OTTAWA, April 15, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed support for a private member’s bill (PMB) introduced Wednesday by MP Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg-South) that would make it a criminal offence for anyone to coerce a woman to terminate her pregnancy.
'Roxanne's Law' (Bill C-510) is named in memory of a pregnant Winnipeg woman who was murdered by her partner after she refused to have an abortion. Working as the chair of the multi-party parliamentary pro |
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