by CCRL | Jun 8, 2012 | News
TORONTO ON June 8, 2012 – The League honoured artist, author and Catholic thinker Michael O’Brien with this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life at its annual dinner in Toronto June 7. After Mr. O’Brien was...
by CCRL | Jun 5, 2012 | News
TORONTO ON June 5, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League comments on the passage of Ontario’s Bill 13 (“Safe Schools Act”), which passed today in a vote of 65-36 with support from the Liberal and New Democrat parties, and opposition by Progressive Conservatives. The...
by CCRL | May 29, 2012 | News
By Douglas Farrow It is said of progressives that they always go on making mistakes. And of conservatives that they work tirelessly to ensure that mistakes are never corrected. Canada, of course, even managed to produce a party called the Progressive Conservatives, to...
by CCRL | May 28, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 28, 2012 – Following two weeks of public hearings, the Ontario Minister of Education, Laurel Broten, has announced amendments to Bill 13 that, if passed, will make it mandatory to allow Gay-Straight Alliances, so named, in all schools where students...
by CCRL | May 28, 2012 | News
TORONTO, May 28, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League joins the family, friends and colleagues of Tom Langan in giving thanks for Tom’s many contributions to the Church and for the guiding role he played in the lives of so many of his students. Tom, who died Friday...
by CCRL | May 24, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 24, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that it has chosen Canadian artist and author Michael O’Brien as winner of this year’s Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The award will be presented at...
