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By Tim Waggoner SAGUENAY, Quebec, Aug. 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The mayor of the Quebec city of Saguenay, Jean Tremblay, says those seeking to take him to court for praying before City Hall meetings are not acting democratically. Despite criticisms, including a...

By Gerard Henderson (Sydney, July 15, 2008) - The new sectarianism is quite different from the old sectarianism. Yet it is real enough. From European settlement in 1788 until about the mid 1960s, Australia was afflicted with a prevailing distrust of Catholics - many...

TORONTO, Ont. July 11, 2008 - The League has called on Governor General Michaelle Jean to rescind the nomination of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. A formal letter of protest has been sent to Her Excellency, and copied to HM Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister...

TORONTO, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped a complaint by a homosexual activist against Catholic Insight a Toronto-based national Catholic news magazine.  A year and a half - and many thousands of dollars in legal...

OTTAWA, July 1, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today criticized the granting of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler. Today’s announcement of the award, rumoured since late last week despite the fact that Canada’s best known abortionist was not on the...

Statement from His Grace, Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto July 1, 2008 Canada's highest honour has been debased. Henry Morgentaler has been awarded the Order of Canada. We are all diminished. A community's worth is measured by the way it treats the most...

OTTAWA, June 24, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on the recent introduction of private member’s Bill C-562, introduced by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde. The proposed bill, based on the euthanasia and assisted suicide proposal introduced by...

TORONTO, June 12, 2008 – the Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased that the Ontario legislature has voted to keep its daily reading of the Lord's Prayer. Premier Dalton McGuinty earlier this year said reading just the Lord's Prayer every day before the opening of...

TORONTO, June 10, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to announce that it has conferred its Archbishop Adam Exner Award to Dr. Andrew A. Simone and Joan Simone, founders of Canadian Food for Children. The League award recognizes Catholic excellence in...

TORONTO, ON June 4, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League has expressed disappointment with the decision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal to fine a provincial marriage commissioner for declining to perform a “marriage” ceremony for two men. The pair filed...