by CCRL | Nov 23, 2021 | Issues, Media Watch, News
Toronto, ON November 23, 2021 – The CCRL has launched a Church Attacks Database, accessible from www.ccrl.ca which catalogues attacks against Catholic churches in Canada ranging from the breaking of stained-glass windows, to acts of desecration and church burnings,...
by CCRL | Jul 30, 2021 | Issues, Media Watch, News
Toronto, ON July 30, 2021 – On June 22, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) decried the burning down of two Catholic Churches in British Columbia on June 21, National Indigenous People’s Day. On July 1, Canada Day, the League issued another press release Burning...
by CCRL | Jul 1, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON July 1, 2021 – On June 22, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) decried the burning down of two Catholic Churches in British Columbia on June 21, National Indigenous People’s Day. In less than ten days, two more churches in BC have been attacked in...
by CCRL | Jun 22, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON June 22, 2021 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) laments the loss of two century old Catholic churches in the Okanagan region of British Colombia, destroyed by suspected arson in the early morning of June 21. The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL)...
by CCRL | May 25, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON May 25, 2021 – The CCRL welcomes the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) granting St. Mary Cathedral’s appeal, released on Friday, May 21. The litigation arose after a difficult pastoral decision made by the Archbishop in order to...
by CCRL | Apr 1, 2021 | Events, Issues, News
Toronto, ON April 1, 2021 – Last year in our Holy Week message of 2020 we at the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) asked our supporters and friends to place crucifixes in their windows and on their front porches to demonstrate a public witness to our faith from Holy...
by CCRL | Mar 30, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON March 30, 2021 – As we prepare for the Sacred Triduum and Easter, it is time to reflect on the great truth of our faith, the joy of the resurrection. We are comforted in the sure knowledge of the great love and mercy of God, as we are confronted by the...
by CCRL | Mar 18, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON March 18, 2021 – As of yesterday evening, Canadians can be killed by a doctor more easily. With the enactment of Bill C-7 into law, there is no longer a requirement to be in a state of a terminal illness where death is “reasonably foreseeable.” For those...
by CCRL | Mar 1, 2021 | Issues, News
Toronto, ON March 1, 2021 – On November 20, 2020, the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) asked its friends and supporters to contact their MPs in opposition to Bill C-7, which expands Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), which is otherwise homicide by lethal...
by CCRL | Jan 12, 2021 | Issues, Media Watch, News
Toronto, ON January 12, 2021 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) is disappointed to learn of a cheap anti-Catholic comment made recently by Liberal Party MP Adam Vaughan (Spadina – Fort York). On January 11, 2021, Mr. Vaughan posted the following comment...
