League supports BC rally on education issue

VANCOUVER, Aug. 28, 2006 – More than 800 people who rallied here on Saturday in  heard that there was reason to be concerned about the future of public education in British Columbia. The rally was held to protest an agreement by the government with homosexual...

Of morals and medicine

Father Raymond J. De Souza on the International AIDS conference in Toronto. Copyright National Post, August 17, 2006. Reprinted with permission.

League comments on avoidance of abortion question

OTTAWA, Aug. 9, 2006 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on reports that MP Leon Benoit’s private members’ bill attempting to make murderers guilty of more than one homicide if a woman is pregnant was deemed non-votable under advice from Justice...

CCRL congratulates The Langans on papal honours

TORONTO, June 20, 2006 – The Catholic Civil Rights League congratulates its co-founder, Dr. Thomas Langan, and his wife, Dr. Janine Langan, who, with others being honoured by the diocese, today received Papal Honours for their outstanding contributions to the Church....

League comments on Ryerson award to Margaret Somerville

TORONTO, June 20, 2006 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the controversy surrounding the decision of Ryerson University to grant an honorary degree to Margaret Somerville, professor of the Faculties of Law and Medicine at McGill University....

League invites supporters to Spring event

TORONTO, May 31, 2006 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is hosting a luncheon Wednesday, June 14 at Charbonnel Lounge, University of St. Michael’s College, in downtown Toronto. Guest speaker Dr.Moira McQueen, director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute,...

CCRL supports victims of violence bill for unborn

OTTAWA, May 18, 2006 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (www.ccrl.ca)  today welcomed the introduction of a private members’ bill that would make it a separate offence to kill or injure an unborn child while committing a violent crime against its mother....

Da Vinci Code: Fiction obscures the facts

TORONTO, May 16, 2006 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (www.ccrl.ca) today launched a new section on its website to help correct the series of lies and half-truths so engagingly presented in the Da Vinci Code, the best-selling novel that will be released as a movie...