Opinion Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:07:15 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Rights league looks for more media responsibility /item/34251-rights-league-looks-for-more-media-responsibility /item/34251-rights-league-looks-for-more-media-responsibility

The executive director of the Catholic Civil Rights League is urging media to be responsibile in its reporting in the wake of the historic meetings at the Vatican between Pope Francis and representatives of CanadaƵapp First Nations.

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Canada Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:18:10 -0400
Database tracks attacks on churches in Canada /item/33777-database-tracks-attacks-on-churches-in-canada /item/33777-database-tracks-attacks-on-churches-in-canada

There have been 57 reported attacks on Catholic churches across Canada so far in 2021, the highest number for any single year stretching back to 2010, according to a new database tracking such attacks.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:25:03 -0500
Rights league defends church rights to manage own affairs /item/32567-rights-league-defends-church-rights-to-manage-own-affairs /item/32567-rights-league-defends-church-rights-to-manage-own-affairs

A little legal ecumenism played out on Zoom before the Supreme Court of Canada as the Catholic Civil Rights League, along with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, came to the defence of CanadaƵapp Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop Abune Dimetros.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:53:45 -0500
Rights league honours pro-life Jesuit /item/30781-rights-league-honours-pro-life-jesuit /item/30781-rights-league-honours-pro-life-jesuit

The Catholic Civil Rights League presented its annual Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life to Fr. Tony Van Hee at its annual award dinner in Toronto Nov. 25.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 29 Nov 2019 07:00:00 -0500
Christian lawyers threatened by new law society requirement /item/26202-christian-lawyers-threatened-by-new-law-society-requirement /item/26202-christian-lawyers-threatened-by-new-law-society-requirement

OTTAWA – The Ontario law society has gone too far by compelling lawyers to submit a “politically correct” statement of principles that may “override core Christian beliefs,” said the president of the Catholic Civil Rights League.

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Canada Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:04:44 -0400
Rights league to intervene in religious freedom case /item/25980-rights-league-to-intervene-in-religious-freedom-case /item/25980-rights-league-to-intervene-in-religious-freedom-case

The Catholic Civil Rights League has become an unlikely ally of a JehovahƵapp Witness congregation in a case coming before the Supreme Court.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:21:27 -0400
Catholic voices to be heard at Supreme Court in religious freedom case /item/25868-catholic-voices-to-be-heard-at-supreme-court-in-religious-freedom-case /item/25868-catholic-voices-to-be-heard-at-supreme-court-in-religious-freedom-case

OTTAWA – CanadaƵapp Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Civil Rights League have been granted intervener status in an important religious freedom case to be heard later this year by the Supreme Court.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:16:00 -0400
Islamophobia motion raised concerns about freedom of speech /item/24403-islamophobia-motion-a-divisive-debate /item/24403-islamophobia-motion-a-divisive-debate

OTTAWA – A Liberal private memberƵapp motion calling on the government to condemn Islamophobia has divided Parliament and raised concerns about freedom of speech.

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ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) Canada Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:50:00 -0500
Weigel warns against the forces fighting faith /opinion/columnists/item/23491-weigel-warns-against-the-forces-fighting-faith /opinion/columnists/item/23491-weigel-warns-against-the-forces-fighting-faith

George Weigel might just be the most important lay Catholic at work today. The American writerƵapp books, essays, newspaper columns and lectures address the importance of defending the Catholic faith, and religion in general, from the assault of radical secularism.

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clewis@catholicregister.org (Charles Lewis) Charles Lewis Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:03:24 -0400
Schadenberg receives Exner Award /item/22432-schadenberg-receives-exner-award /item/22432-schadenberg-receives-exner-award

TORONTO – Anti-euthanasia activist Alex Schadenberg has been honoured with the Archbishop Adam Exner Award for Catholic Excellence in Public Life by the Catholic Civil Rights League for his ongoing advocacy against euthanasia and assisted suicide.

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jean.kodin@catholicregister.org (Jean Ko Din, The Catholic Register) Canada: Toronto-GTA Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:30:00 -0400