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Parental rights issues in education highlighted
TORONTO, Aug. 27, 2010 - As students return to school in the coming weeks, several ongoing situations pose challenges for the rights of parents in education, and the Catholic nature of publicly-funded Catholic schools. In British Columbia, an agreement in 2006...
Pope, cardinal falsely maligned
TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2010 - The departure to Rome of Cardinal Ouellet, Canada’s most senior churchman and a good friend of the League, was marked by some good press reports (Post, Aug. 19, Register, Aug. 23) but also by some cynical observations about the sex abuse...
Canadian cardinal to set tone for Church
By Charles Lewis National Post The new head of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Bishops, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, said a combination of secrecy in certain corners of the Church and a general degeneration of mores in society at large combined to cause and...
Better knowledge of lack of abortion law needed, says League
TORONTO, August 4, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on a new survey showing that as many as two-thirds of Canadians do not know that Canada has no abortion law. The Angus Reid poll, which asked 1,022 Canadian adults a variety of questions about...
Vatican document sparks biased response
TORONTO, July 29, 2010 - As we mentioned in a membership message July 16, The Vatican recently released updated guidelines on the handling of several issues in Church governance, including improvements to the management of allegations of the sexual abuse of minors....
Census should retain religion question, says League
OTTAWA, July 7, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on changes being made by Statistics Canada to the next federal census, including its decision to exclude religious affiliation information from the mandatory portion of the 2011 census. Instead,...
CCRL congratulates Cardinal Ouellet
TORONTO, ON June 30, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League congratulates Cardinal Marc Ouellet on his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and President of the Commission for Latin America. “The League has always appreciated Cardinal Ouellet’s...
League celebrates Silver Anniversary
TORONTO, June 12, 2010 - The advocacy and education work of the Catholic Civil Rights League is needed now more than ever, Rev. Raymond J. de Souza told those attending the League’s June 10 anniversary gala. Noting that the media has grown rapidly and embraced new...
League pleased with Quebec court decision on religious education
MONTREAL, Que., June 21, 2010 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that the Quebec Superior Court has upheld the right of Loyola High School to be exempt from a provincial government requirement that it teach the new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC)...
Catholic bashing always seems to be fair game
Cardinal Ouellet and Archbishop Prendergast’s recent call for aid to be provided to pregnant women who want to keep their babies pretty much got dismissed the same way as Cardinal Ouellet’s statements a week before, albeit with less venom. There was nothing startling...
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