by CCRL | Jun 19, 2007 | News
By Elizabeth O’Brien ROME, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for justice and Peace, has called on all Catholics to stop funding Amnesty International because of its recent support of abortion....
by CCRL | Jun 12, 2007 | News
On November 7, 2000 in the State of Maine, promoters of assisted suicide waited with excitement concerning the results of a referendum on the Maine Death with Dignity Act. Polls throughout the Campaign assured the initiative sponsors that 70% of the voters in Maine...
by CCRL | Jun 7, 2007 | News
TORONTO, June 7, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is happy to announce the winners of this year’s Archbishop Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The League created the award in 2004 to mark the retirement of Archbishop Exner, Archbishop Emeritus...
by CCRL | Jun 5, 2007 | News
TORONTO, Ont. June 5, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on Ontario’s pledge to provide $30 million for stem cell research, which was announced jointly by Premier Dalton McGuinty and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during the governor’s...
by CCRL | Jun 4, 2007 | News
By Paul Schratz (BC Catholic, June 4, 2007) U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower once observed that in free countries, “the agent may never become the master.” If human rights and freedoms are to flourish, he said, “government must operate with its...
by CCRL | May 30, 2007 | News
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, May 28, 2007 – The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ruled recently that the Yellowknife Catholic School Board may not refuse to allow non-Catholics to run for election as trustees, who govern the board. The decision brings to...
by CCRL | May 23, 2007 | News
By Deborah Gyapong OTTAWA, Canada (CCN, May 22, 2007) Two Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) will seek to have Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) answer to a House of Commons committee for a television program the Catholic Civil Rights League has...
by CCRL | May 18, 2007 | News
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s controversial remarks about the Pope have garnered a flurry of responses from Catholic groups. The latest to respond has been St. Catharines...
by CCRL | May 18, 2007 | News
By Deborah Gyapong (Canadian Catholic News, Ottawa, May 17, 2007) – The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested against blasphemous content in a Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) television-pilot program The Altar Boy Gang. The May 11 program featured a...
by CCRL | May 17, 2007 | News
By Rachel Boomer (Halifax Daily News, May 17, 2007) – Catholic politicians can’t, and shouldn’t, check their faith at the door of the House of Commons when they vote on issues like abortion and gay marriage, says the newly appointed archbishop of...
