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The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) is pleased to announce that it will be unveiling a new editorial column featuring its newest member of the board of directors, Charles Lewis.

On June 2, the CCRL hosted its annual dinner in Toronto. The keynote speaker was Douglas Farrow, Professor of Christian Thought at McGill University, holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies, and Project Director for Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy. The League presented the Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life to anti-euthanasia/assisted suicide activist Alex Schadenberg.

The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) is pleased to extend its continued support for the national March for Life taking place in Ottawa today with representation from across the country. The theme for this year’s march is #endthekilling

While our country may be moving in a sad direction so as to accept physician assisted killing, Alex Schadenberg has been tireless in his advocacy for the affirmation of life and of sustaining the Hippocratic tradition in health care. He speaks for the disabled, for the vulnerable, for healthcare workers, and for so many of us with a genuine zeal for a life affirming approach, even at the end of our lives. The CCRL is delighted to recognize the ongoing work of Alex Schadenberg with the Archbishop Exner Award for Excellence in Catholic Public Witness.

Canada moves to engage third party “suicide”, against our history, and the practice of good medicine. Parliament should not meekly comply with a radical Supreme Court decision, when other mature democracies have come to the opposite conclusion. Much less should it expand hastily on the Carter decision. The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) sent the following submission to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding Bill C-14.

As the Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) continues to study Bill C-14 so that we may issue our own analysis next week along with a call to action, we urge our supporters to read the following statements made by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Archbishop of Vancouver, J. Michael Miller, CSB, and Douglas Farrow, Professor of Christian Thought at McGill University.

The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) is reviewing Bill C-14 which was presented in the House of Commons today. Bill C-14 is an act to amend the criminal code to allow for the provision of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. The League will issue a release shortly. In the meantime, we repost today’s statement made by the archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Cardinal Collins.

The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) strongly opposes the recommendations of the Report of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying, titled “Medical Assistance in Dying: A Patient-Centred Approach.” The CCRL uses the more accurate terms “assisted suicide” and “euthanasia” since there is nothing medicinal whatsoever in the process of killing a patient or intervening so that a patient may commit suicide more easily.