by CCRL | Oct 3, 2012 | Media Watch
TORONTO, ON, October 2, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested the satirizing of the Last Supper in the Sept. 28 episode of CBC’s “This Hour has 22 Minutes.” In a letter to the show’s producers, the League commented on the double standard often seen in...
by CCRL | Jul 23, 2012 | Media Watch
Pope Benedict XVI has taken legal action against the German satire weekly magazine Titanic and has managed to get a cease and desist order filed against it. In the afternoon on Tuesday July 10, 2012, Hamburg judges issued an urgent injunction forbidding Titanic to...
by CCRL | Jun 15, 2012 | Media Watch
Re: “Vatican snuffs out a breath of fresh air” (June 10). Maureen Dowd’s claim that the Vatican is trying to send women back to the Dark Ages would not be taken seriously by anyone who has even a faint acquaintance with the modern Church. The columnist has mixed in a...
by CCRL | May 16, 2012 | Media Watch
OTTAWA, May 16, 2012 – The League wrote May 11 to federal Heritage Minister, James Moore, as well as to the museum itself to protest the exhibit “Sex: a Tell-All Exhibition”, scheduled to run at Ottawa’s Museum of Science and Technology May 18 to early next...
by CCRL | May 2, 2012 | Media Watch
TORONTO, ON May 2, 2012 – Many commentators are using the current controversy about anti-bullying programs in Ontario to attack the funding of Catholic schools. The League recently responded to two such articles, one in the National Post and one in the...
by CCRL | Apr 13, 2012 | Media Watch
TORONTO ON April 13, 2012 – The movie “The Three Stooges”, an updated take on one of the best-known slapstick trios, opened today across North America. The Stooges are depicted seeking to raise money to save an orphanage run by traditionally-dressed nuns. After seeing...
