by CCRL | Jan 29, 2009 | News
TORONTO, ON Jan. 29, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the approval of atheist advocacy advertising on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) buses. The application was approved yesterday. “There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and...
by CCRL | Jan 26, 2009 | News
TORONTO, ON. Jan. 26, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on reports that a Cornwall, Ontario branch of Canada Post has banned the use of the greeting “Merci, Seigneur, pour la belle journee (Thank you, Lord, for the beautiful day)” after a...
by CCRL | Jan 12, 2009 | News
January 12, 2009 – An Angus Reid poll has found that a vast majority of Canadians do not know that under the country’s current legal situation the killing of an unborn child is permitted at any time from conception up to the moment of birth. The poll results...
by CCRL | Jan 7, 2009 | News
OTTAWA, Jan. 7, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today stated that the strong and ongoing reaction to an MP’s recent suggestion that Canada needs an abortion law reminds us once again that this is in fact an issue for Parliament to address. MP Rod Bruinooge...
by CCRL | Jan 5, 2009 | News
MONTREAL, QC, Jan. 5, 2008 (CCRL) – Trois-Rivieres recently became the latest Quebec town to be told to refrain from holding prayers before council meetings. In a non-binding decision, the province’s human rights commission said Trois-Rivieres and other...
by CCRL | Dec 24, 2008 | News
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 23, 2008 – In his annual address to the Roman Curia, Pope Benedict mentioned that the Church cannot accept “gender ideology” because it is contrary to God’s design for the human person. No one even vaguely familiar with...
by CCRL | Dec 19, 2008 | News
Montreal, Dec. 19, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on news that a Quebec school board has suspended students because they chose not attend the course on religious ethics and culture which has been made mandatory throughout the province,...
by CCRL | Dec 17, 2008 | News
By Barbara Kay An often-quoted Jesuit maxim boasts, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” Only seven? Amateurs! Since September all Quebec students from primary school entry to high school graduation, whether enrolled in public...
by CCRL | Dec 12, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. Dec. 12, 2008 – The movie “Doubt” opens in Canada tonight. It centres around an unproven allegation of sexual misconduct between a priest and a boy in Grade 8, and is set in the Bronx in 1964. League Executive Director Joanne McGarry attended the preview...
by CCRL | Dec 8, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. Dec. 8, 2008 – The Oblate Fathers of Assumption Province have returned the Orders of Canada granted to two of their members, Father Anthony Sylla, OMI and Father Michael Smith, OMI. In a letter to Governor General Michaelle Jean, Father Janusz...
