by CCRL | Sep 27, 2007 | News
TORONTO, September 27, 2007 – The League responds to the anti-religious and anti-Catholic tone of the recent brief of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which asked the province of Ontario not to extend funding to faith-based schools and to cease...
by CCRL | Sep 25, 2007 | News
TORONTO, Sept. 24, 2007 (CNW) – “I speak on behalf of the 650,000 students in Catholic schools and the 2.4 million Catholic school ratepayers who support our system, when I express my deep dismay at the assault launched today by the...
by CCRL | Sep 19, 2007 | News
Ontario bishops message on HPV innoculation in Catholic schools The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a letter to help Catholic school boards, educators and parents decide whether to permit the administration of the vaccine against HPV in Catholic...
by CCRL | Sep 17, 2007 | News
VANCOUVER, BC September 14, 2007 – Judgment has been reserved in the “Bubble Zone” case concerning protest within a proscribed geographic area near abortion clinics. The Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (Alliance), represented by legal counsel, Julie Owens,...
by CCRL | Sep 13, 2007 | News
TORONTO, September 13, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (www.ccrl.ca) today commented on the results of the 2006 census figures released Sept. 12. The census found that the overall ratio of traditional, married couple-headed families continued to decline, while...
by CCRL | Sep 5, 2007 | News
By Michael Coren The past week witnessed two more suicide attempts from the Western world. The first was when CNN ran three shows on religious fundamentalism, making the appallingly relativistic and fatuous argument that the Christian, Jewish and Islamic varieties...
by CCRL | Aug 22, 2007 | News
UNITED KINGDOM, August 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since Amnesty International officially reaffirmed its pro-abortion policy last weekend, an English bishop has withdrawn his support, thereby signalling that Catholics should begin a boycott of the...
by CCRL | Aug 21, 2007 | Issues
To help voters prepare for the Ontario election Oct. 10, the Catholic Bishops of Ontario have revised and updated their 2002 pastoral letter Taking Stock, an Examination of Conscience. It provides reflections on Catholic social teaching and the many general issues...
by CCRL | Aug 17, 2007 | News
By Kate Fraher (Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada) On August 1, 2007, a British government health committee recommended the British parliament vote on a newly drafted bill, which removes a clause requiring that fertility clinics consider whether a...
by CCRL | Aug 17, 2007 | Issues
Many Canadians object to having their mandatory union dues used to promote various social agendas such as same sex marriage, anti-life legislation and other issues that are deeply informed by religious values. The League has been involved with several such cases,...
