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TORONTO, April 27, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that its fifth annual Spring dinner will take place June 3 at the University of Toronto. Guest speaker will be Catholic writer and broadcaster Michael Coren, probably Canada’s most...

TORONTO, April 8, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commended Calgary’s Catholic Teachers’ Association for ending its support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, one of the world’s leading promoters of condoms in the fight against AIDS. For the past several...

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, March 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a talk given to North Shore Pro-Life, the outspokenly orthodox and strongly pro-life and pro-family archbishop of Vancouver, The Most Reverend J. Michael Miller, said that the Canadian pro-life...

TORONTO, March 26 2009 – The League is participating in a symposium for young adults sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Catholic Youth at the University of Toronto April 25. The panel of speakers will discuss as well as answer questions regarding "Faith in the...

TORONTO, March 23, 2009 (CCRL) - The worldwide backlash occasioned by Pope Benedict’s remarks on condom use as a way of combating AIDS in developing countries, especially in Africa, has included thoughtful commentary as well as ill-informed sneers and tasteless...

Vatican, Mar. 12, 2009  - Pope Benedict XVI has written to all the world's Catholic bishops explaining his decision to lift the excommunications of four bishops for the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and pleading for support in his effort to achieve reconciliation...

OTTAWA, March 11, 2009 - The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased once again to support the national March for Life, taking place in Ottawa May 13 to 15. Events begin Wednesday, May 13th with a Mass at St. Theresa’s Parish at 7:30 pm followed by a Candlelight Vigil...

OTTAWA, Feb. 13, 2009 (CCRL) - On Monday, Feb. 9, the parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights agreed to consider motions calling for a review of the Canadian Human Rights Act's Section 13. This is the section giving the Canadian Human Rights...

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 4, 2009 (CCRL) -- The Vatican on Feb. 3 ordered an illicitly-ordained bishop who denies the Holocaust to publicly recant his views before he can be considered for any role in the Church. Pope Benedict was not aware of Bishop Richard Williamson's...

CALGARY, AB Feb. 3, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on news that some members of Campus Pro-life (CPL) Club at the University of Calgary have been charged with trespassing by the university.   The charges stem from the club’s Genocide...