The question of Catholic school funding

As Ontario prepares for an election in October, several groups are trying to raise the question of continued funding for the province’s Catholic elementary and secondary schools. Some claim that all publicly-funded schools would be operated more efficiently if there...

League supports March for Life

OTTAWA, April 19, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today announced that it is once again co-sponsoring the annual March for Life, to take place in Ottawa May 9 to 11. The 10th annual event will include a Mass, candlelight vigil and the Rose Dinner as well as...

Pope Pius XII’s good fight

By Michael Coren, (National Post, Wednesday, April 18, 2007) – Vatican officials threatened last week to boycott a Holocaust Remembrance Service at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem because of what they claim to be a profoundly misleading account of Pope Pius...

Teachers in Britain won’t be able to present Catholic dogma

LONDON – (by Joanna Bogle, National Catholic Register, April 8 – 14) — Britain has a new law banning Catholic schools from teaching Catholic morals — and it was steered through Parliament by a Catholic. Under the new Sexual-Orientation Regulations,...

MTV Canada chastised for explicit broadcast

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter, April 10, 2007) – Canada’s TV censor said Monday that MTV Canada breached industry codes by airing a sexually explicit TV show during daytime hours. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (a voluntary body made up of industry...

Coalition calls for all-faith funding

(by Maria Kubacki, The Ottawa Citizen, April 7, 2007)- It has been a Holy Week for many. Christians are celebrating Easter, Jews are in the midst of Passover, and Muslims have been observing the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. For the faithful of all three major...

Religious freedom restricted in court decision, says League

TORONTO, April 3, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (www.ccrl.ca) regrets that the Federal Court has taken a narrow view of freedom of conscience and religion, and freedom of association, in its decision not to revisit the Canadian Human Rights...

N.Y. gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit

NEW YORK (Reuters, March 30, 2007)) – A Manhattan art gallery canceled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics, including the League and US Catholic League for...

League criticizes Easter “art” display

TORONTO, Ont. March 30, 2007 – According to international news reports, artist Cosimo Cavallaro is exhibiting a 6-foot tall chocolate sculpture of a crucified Jesus with his genitals exposed during Holy Week, from April 1 to April 7 in the art gallery of a New...