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 | Jun 15, 2012 | News
VANCOUVER, BC June 15, 2012 – Today’s ruling of the B.C. Supreme Court calling for liberalization of Canada’s assisted suicide laws devalues the lives of the disabled and is not in keeping with how Parliament has voted on the issue, says the Catholic Civil Rights...
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 8, 2012 | News
OTTAWA, ON June 8, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that Parliament has voted to repeal Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, as a result of a vote of 153 to 136 June 6. Section 13, which prohibits hate speech on the Internet, (and Section 54,...
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, 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 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 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...
by CCRL | May 17, 2012 | News
TORONTO, ON May 17, 2012 – The Catholic Civil Rights League presented its position about Ontario’s Bills 13 and 14 at Queens Park May 15, appearing before the Standing Committee on Social Policy. We argued that anti-bullying policies in schools need to be...
