2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
In a radical move, David Brynjolfson finds himself living in monastic life for a year.
I am full of optimism and enthusiasm for the great things in store for my future and I sense a year is a perfect amount of time To get there, I put a huge amount of effort into school, much more than necessary, but this effort only served to reinforce a sense of inadequacy Last year, however, I saw ...
Fr. Robert Assaly is the first married Catholic priest in the Montreal archdiocese, ordained this past September. Publisher Peter Stockland sits down with Fr. Assaly to discuss this calling from fatherhood to priesthood.
With his family of six children, it’s a natural fatherly thing for the first married Catholic priest in the Montreal archdiocese to say In 2015, he and Nancy were formally received into the Catholic Church Montreal has endured a vocational crisis for decades, though Assaly says that’s a problem that...
During a gathering of the Cardus collective in the Steel City this week, Father Raymond de Souza finds a cutting edge sculpture, a God-shaped hole in newspaper church coverage, and a study that strips away myths about eating red meat.
Tuesday’s Hamilton Spectator, the paper of record in the Steel City, had a front-page story on the 125th anniversary of St The idea came from Hebrews 13:2 – Be welcoming to strangers and many have entertained angels unaware Last Sunday in Rome his new sculpture was (temporarily) erected in St ...
Graydon Nicholas, the first Indigenous lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, has spent a lifetime setting an example for reconciliation, writes Peter Stockland.
Thomas University or in his role as Supreme Warden of the Knights of Columbus, Nicholas has maintained that process of continuous humility by challenging fallacies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, particularly those of faith Chabot first encountered Nicholas several years ago through in...
Greta Thunberg has stirred emotions worldwide, with some decidedly non-Christian approaches to the climate change issue. But Rev. Dave Bookless, director of theology for A Rocha International, writes that her prophetic voice deserves to be listened to seriously for its articulation of the pain and anger felt by so many young people.
So, please listen to Greta and to the young people you know – those in our churches who long to see God’s creation preached about, prayed for and cared for – and those who currently shun our churches because they sadly believe the Gospel of Jesus has nothing to offer in a time of climate crisis So w...
Convivium’s Rebecca Darwent and Peter Stockland tag along with protesters in Ottawa and Montreal respectively. They find the mood, far from one of crisis and despair, is like a playful walk in the park.
But what happens after, when the signs are thrown away and the crowds dismissed? Instagram feeds of teens and young adults will fill up over the next few days with quasi-hopeful messages because crowds gathered for… something (Does anyone know?) The civic duty of posting a photo on social media, lo...
In an address to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops this week, Fr. Deacon Andrew Bennett says that true religious freedom for Christians is the unyielding proclamation of Christ.
This is a fallacy on the one hand because it denies the historical reality of the religious life of human beings, which from time immemorial has been lived in the public square These martyrs and confessors are faithful women and men who stand for truth in the face of falsehood and who champion human...
As her daughter’s first birthday flies around the corner, Brittany Beacham reflects on God’s faithfulness and offers lessons she has learned in this first year.
Good habits take time to form, bad habits take time to break, and as it turns out, we still eat dinner in front of the TV every once in a while I’ve been reminded over and over in the last year, through motherhood and other transitions of sorts, that God takes the long view of things You know when p...
Father Raymond de Souza wonders what spirit moves the public board of education in Brockville, Ontario to block an empty building’s sale to a private religious group.
The Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) clearly regards any private school as Wrench might regard another garage, namely, competition for customers Perhaps the Wolford school does have a sacred character, after all, and that defining character is not the education of children, but the educati...
Coming back to Canada after a summer internship at an emergency clinic in Jerusalem, Petula Fernandes recounts stories of selflessness that aren't found in headlines.
I believe clinics such as Terem, and in fact all healthcare facilities, function as an important reminder to humanity about the universal right to medical care, regardless of the patient’s cultural, religious or political affiliation and how every individual is entitled to receive basic health treat...
In face of fake news, what are we to do? In this first piece of a three-part series, Carl Hildebrand presents the problem with fake news and proposes its solutions.
To resist fake news and media manipulation, we need to become the sort of people who grasp these truths and create a public discourse and deliberative culture consistent with them When we talk about fake news, we sometimes mean to include reporting that does not meet the standards of responsible jou...
Publisher Peter Stockland calls for an end to the vile tactics of the election campaign, citing the words in a eulogy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave at his father’s funeral to “never attack the individual.”
Above all, we need our leaders to do what former Prime Minister Trudeau did for eight-year-old future Prime Minister Trudeau: Restore the human to the political Where every leader, including Prime Minister Trudeau himself should look, is to the oration he gave at his own father’s funeral on Oct ...
With the "blackface" make-up photo of Justin Trudeau comes the hope for an end to the mud-slinging politics that have covered the election campaign to date, writes Fr. Raymond.
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The federal election has begun with more mud than Saturday bath night at a pig farm. Alas, Convivium contributor Peter Menzies says, too many reporters are jumping in and further sinking journalism’s #credibility.
There have been other very odd moments such as when the CBC’s fact check revealed that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s promise of a universal tax cut was questionable because many Canadians don’t pay taxes, and when Katie Simpson, also of the CBC, took time to draw attention to herself and the d...
Convivium’s Rebecca Darwent finds her old hometown growing up from underground as a brand new light rail commuter train lets Ottawans connect from the far flung ‘burbs almost as if they lived in a real city like Montreal.
Riding the train in from my now-westerly suburb, my commute time didn’t change much, and it really won’t help anyone access new parts of the city that were previously inaccessible, such as my own humble suburb upbringings Heading downtown was reserved for an entire day trip to the museum or art gall...