by CCRL | Jul 18, 2008 | News
By Gerard Henderson (Sydney, July 15, 2008) – The new sectarianism is quite different from the old sectarianism. Yet it is real enough. From European settlement in 1788 until about the mid 1960s, Australia was afflicted with a prevailing distrust of Catholics...
by CCRL | Jul 11, 2008 | News
TORONTO, Ont. July 11, 2008 – The League has called on Governor General Michaelle Jean to rescind the nomination of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. A formal letter of protest has been sent to Her Excellency, and copied to HM Queen Elizabeth, Prime...
by CCRL | Jul 7, 2008 | News
TORONTO, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped a complaint by a homosexual activist against Catholic Insight a Toronto-based national Catholic news magazine. A year and a half – and many thousands of...
by CCRL | Jul 1, 2008 | News
Statement from His Grace, Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto July 1, 2008 Canada’s highest honour has been debased. Henry Morgentaler has been awarded the Order of Canada. We are all diminished. A community’s worth is measured by the way it treats the...
by CCRL | Jul 1, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, July 1, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today criticized the granting of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler. Today’s announcement of the award, rumoured since late last week despite the fact that Canada’s best known abortionist was not on the...
by CCRL | Jun 24, 2008 | News
OTTAWA, June 24, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the recent introduction of private member’s Bill C-562, introduced by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde. The proposed bill, based on the euthanasia and assisted suicide proposal introduced by...
by CCRL | Jun 12, 2008 | News
TORONTO, June 12, 2008 – the Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that the Ontario legislature has voted to keep its daily reading of the Lord’s Prayer. Premier Dalton McGuinty earlier this year said reading just the Lord’s Prayer every day before the...
by CCRL | Jun 11, 2008 | News
TORONTO, June 10, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that it has conferred its Archbishop Adam Exner Award to Dr. Andrew A. Simone and Joan Simone, founders of Canadian Food for Children. The League award recognizes Catholic excellence in...
by CCRL | Jun 5, 2008 | News
TORONTO, ON June 4, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has expressed disappointment with the decision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal to fine a provincial marriage commissioner for declining to perform a “marriage” ceremony for two men. The pair filed...
by CCRL | May 29, 2008 | News
TORONTO, May 29, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today expressed disappointment that the appeal of Susan Comstock, a League member who sought a diversion of mandatory union dues on conscientious grounds, has been unsuccessful. The appeal,...
