by CCRL | Jun 4, 2007 | News
By Paul Schratz (BC Catholic, June 4, 2007) U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower once observed that in free countries, “the agent may never become the master.” If human rights and freedoms are to flourish, he said, “government must operate with its...
by CCRL | May 30, 2007 | News
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, May 28, 2007 – The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ruled recently that the Yellowknife Catholic School Board may not refuse to allow non-Catholics to run for election as trustees, who govern the board. The decision brings to...
by CCRL | May 23, 2007 | News
By Deborah Gyapong OTTAWA, Canada (CCN, May 22, 2007) Two Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) will seek to have Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) answer to a House of Commons committee for a television program the Catholic Civil Rights League has...
by CCRL | May 18, 2007 | News
By Deborah Gyapong (Canadian Catholic News, Ottawa, May 17, 2007) – The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested against blasphemous content in a Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) television-pilot program The Altar Boy Gang. The May 11 program featured a...
by CCRL | May 18, 2007 | News
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s controversial remarks about the Pope have garnered a flurry of responses from Catholic groups. The latest to respond has been St. Catharines...
by CCRL | May 17, 2007 | News
By Rachel Boomer (Halifax Daily News, May 17, 2007) – Catholic politicians can’t, and shouldn’t, check their faith at the door of the House of Commons when they vote on issues like abortion and gay marriage, says the newly appointed archbishop of...
