League supports CJC complaint involving Order of Canada process

TORONTO, ON Aug. 14, 2008 – Forty-two Canadian organizations, including the Catholic Civil Rights League, representing an estimated one million-plus members, collectively filed a letter of complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council on Wednesday, August 13th,...

League updates for August

* Catholic Insight Magazine is facing an appeal of the recent dismissal of human rights’charges against it. * Father Tom Lynch’s address to our Spring dinner is now available through our website. (See also Interim article.) * Quebec mayor refuses to drop prayer...

The sorry sport of Pope bashing

By Gerard Henderson (Sydney, July 15, 2008) – The new sectarianism is quite different from the old sectarianism. Yet it is real enough. From European settlement in 1788 until about the mid 1960s, Australia was afflicted with a prevailing distrust of Catholics...

League seeks to have Morgentaler award revoked

TORONTO, Ont. July 11, 2008 – The League has called on Governor General Michaelle Jean to rescind the nomination of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. A formal letter of protest has been sent to Her Excellency, and copied to HM Queen Elizabeth, Prime...