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Canadian woman dies at Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich
(From the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) Elizabeth Jeanette MacDonald of Windsor Nova Scotia recently died at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich Switzerland, possibly with the help of the Right to Die Society of Canada. Ms. MacDonald, who lived many...
Vatican prelate: Catholics and Catholic Organizations should withdraw support for Amnesty International
By Elizabeth O'Brien ROME, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for justice and Peace, has called on all Catholics to stop funding Amnesty International because of its recent support of abortion. The nearly 50...
Polling responses change based on the context of the question
On November 7, 2000 in the State of Maine, promoters of assisted suicide waited with excitement concerning the results of a referendum on the Maine Death with Dignity Act. Polls throughout the Campaign assured the initiative sponsors that 70% of the voters in Maine...
League honours two laypersons
TORONTO, June 7, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League is happy to announce the winners of this year’s Archbishop Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life. The League created the award in 2004 to mark the retirement of Archbishop Exner, Archbishop Emeritus...
League critical of pledge for embryonic stem cell research
TORONTO, Ont. June 5, 2007 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on Ontario’s pledge to provide $30 million for stem cell research, which was announced jointly by Premier Dalton McGuinty and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during the governor’s...
Deadly prescription for Canadian doctors
By Paul Schratz (BC Catholic, June 4, 2007) U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower once observed that in free countries, "the agent may never become the master." If human rights and freedoms are to flourish, he said, "government must operate with its powers sharply defined...
Canadian Territorial Court Rules Catholic Schools Must Accept Non-Catholic Trustees
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, May 28, 2007 - The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ruled recently that the Yellowknife Catholic School Board may not refuse to allow non-Catholics to run for election as trustees, who govern the board. The decision brings to the fore...
Parliament members seek to have media brass hauled before committee over blasphemous TV program
By Deborah Gyapong OTTAWA, Canada (CCN, May 22, 2007) Two Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) will seek to have Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) answer to a House of Commons committee for a television program the Catholic Civil Rights League has...
League protests ‘blasphemous TV program, milk ad
By Deborah Gyapong (Canadian Catholic News, Ottawa, May 17, 2007) - The Catholic Civil Rights League has protested against blasphemous content in a Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) television-pilot program The Altar Boy Gang. The May 11 program featured a group...
President of Ontario Bishops Conference Responds to Premier’s “Disturbing” Remarks about Pope
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, May 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's controversial remarks about the Pope have garnered a flurry of responses from Catholic groups. The latest to respond has been St. Catharines Diocese Bishop...
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