by CCRL | Feb 17, 2014 | News
TORONTO February 17, 2014 – The League has written to the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (NSBS) encouraging its members to welcome future graduates of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, noting that failure to do so would violate religious...
by CCRL | Feb 6, 2014 | News
(Vatican Radio- February 5, 2014) The United Nations has issued concluding observations on the reviewed reports of the Holy See and five States , Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It follows a hearing at the UN in Geneva attended by a group from...
by CCRL | Feb 6, 2014 | News
TORONTO, ON February 6, 2014 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the report of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which accused the Vatican of systematically covering up child sexual abuse and called for changes to Church attitudes toward...
by CCRL | Jan 17, 2014 | News
TORONTO, ON January 17, 2014 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that its application to intervene in the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) appeal of Montreal’s Loyola High School has been accepted. The hearing is scheduled for March 24. The...
by CCRL | Jan 17, 2014 | Newsletters
by CCRL | Jan 13, 2014 | News
QUEBEC CITY, QC, January 13, 2014 — The Catholic Civil Rights League congratulates Archbishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix of Quebec City on his elevation by Pope Francis to the College of Cardinals and wishes him many years of continued service. Archbishop...
by CCRL | Dec 20, 2013 | News
OTTAWA, ON December 20, 2013 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the Supreme Court of Canada decision in the prostitution case Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, in which the League was an intervener. The unanimous decision, issued...
by CCRL | Dec 17, 2013 | News
By Sean Murphy The “We Need A Law” campaign has revealed a dispute in the pro-life community about whether or not it is acceptable to try to limit abortion with laws that impose gestational limits. The dispute is divisive and it can take an ugly turn....
by CCRL | Dec 17, 2013 | Newsletters
by CCRL | Dec 6, 2013 | News
OTTAWA, ON, December 6, 2013 – MP Maurice Vellacott has put forward notice of two motions that he intends to bring in Parliament in late January, when his name is on Order of Precedence. The first proposes that shared parenting be the presumptive norm in custody...
