John Paul II: A best seller in life and in death

By Father Thomas Rosica, CSB   (April 2, 2008) – Today marks the third anniversary of death of Pope John Paul II. For three solid weeks in April of 2005, we were inundated with words, stories, images and rich ceremonies coming to us from Rome — images...

“Resist, counter and protest”

VANCOUVER, March 22, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League will collaborate with other groups “to develop strategies that concerned parents can employ to passively and actively resist, counter and protest” the kind of instruction recommended by a new teachers’...

Feue l’identite Chretienne du Quebec

par Richard Bastien, Directeur Les médias signalaient récemment que le chef de l’ADQ, Mario Dumont, trouve « extrêmement intéressante » l’idée de créer un ministère de l’identité nationale au Québec, idée qu’il aurait eue à la suite de sa rencontre avec un ministre du...

“Serious concerns” raised about BC teacher guide

VANCOUVER, BC, March 14, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today released what a retired UBC professor of education calls “a comprehensive, finely detailed, extensively researched and documented critique” of a teachers’ manual designed to fulfil a private...

No new sins, just old media biases

March 11, 2008 (CWNews.com) – When he finished his interview with L’Osservatore Romano, Archishop Gianfranco Girotti probably thought that his main message had been an appeal to Catholics to use the sacrament of Confession. Little did he know that the...

League welcomes result of vote on Bill C-484

OTTAWA, March 5, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to note that Bill C-484, which would grant legal recognition to unborn children killed or injured during the course of a crime against their mothers, today achieved the necessary majority (147 to 132)...

Debate police hit another campus

TORONTO, March 3, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on how a scheduled debate was cancelled at York University Feb. 28 just hours before it was to take place because the school’s student union insisted that abortion is not debatable.   There...

Latimer case challenges rights of disabled, says League

TORONTO, February 28, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the decision of the appeal division of the National Parole Board to release Robert Latimer on day parole. Mr. Latimer, who had appealed an earlier decision to deny parole, has been...