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Conduct unbecoming a free society
By Chris Kempling (April 9, 2008) - On the first day of the counselling psychology class, the instructor asked us to share what was the most important fact about ourselves. Jim (not his real name) identified himself as gay. I identified myself as a Christian. I...
Grandparents increasingly ostracized, even led to euthanasia by individualistic society: Benedict XVI
By John Jalsevac ROME, April 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Aging grandparents are increasingly being led to feel like they are burdens on those they love, despite the vital role that they have to play in the life of the family and society, Benedict XVI told the 18th...
John Paul II: A best seller in life and in death
By Father Thomas Rosica, CSB (April 2, 2008) - Today marks the third anniversary of death of Pope John Paul II. For three solid weeks in April of 2005, we were inundated with words, stories, images and rich ceremonies coming to us from Rome -- images that...
Pro-lifers file rights complaint; City taken to commission over pulled ads
By Barbara Brown HAMILTON, Ont. March 31, 2008 - Hamilton Right to Life has complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, claiming the city trampled on its freedom of expression by yanking pro-life ads from bus shelters. The complaint filed this week names the...
Resist, counter and protest
VANCOUVER, March 22, 2008 - The Catholic Civil Rights League will collaborate with other groups “to develop strategies that concerned parents can employ to passively and actively resist, counter and protest” the kind of instruction recommended by a new teachers’...
Feue lidentite Chretienne du Quebec
par Richard Bastien, Directeur Les médias signalaient récemment que le chef de l’ADQ, Mario Dumont, trouve « extrêmement intéressante » l’idée de créer un ministère de l’identité nationale au Québec, idée qu’il aurait eue à la suite de sa rencontre avec un ministre du...
Serious concerns raised about BC teacher guide
VANCOUVER, BC, March 14, 2008 - The Catholic Civil Rights League today released what a retired UBC professor of education calls “a comprehensive, finely detailed, extensively researched and documented critique” of a teachers’ manual designed to fulfil a private...
No new sins, just old media biases
March 11, 2008 (CWNews.com) - When he finished his interview with L'Osservatore Romano, Archishop Gianfranco Girotti probably thought that his main message had been an appeal to Catholics to use the sacrament of Confession. Little did he know that the English-language...
League welcomes result of vote on Bill C-484
OTTAWA, March 5, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is pleased to note that Bill C-484, which would grant legal recognition to unborn children killed or injured during the course of a crime against their mothers, today achieved the necessary majority (147 to 132)...
Debate police hit another campus
TORONTO, March 3, 2008 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on how a scheduled debate was cancelled at York University Feb. 28 just hours before it was to take place because the school’s student union insisted that abortion is not debatable. There...
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