Raymond J. de Souza
Father Raymond J. de Souza is a Cardus Senior Fellow, the founding Editor of Convivium, chaplain at Newman House (the Roman Catholic centre at Queen's University), and a parish priest, in addition to writing for the National Post and The Catholic Register.
Bio last updated January 12th, 2022.
Articles by Raymond J. de Souza
Read about Charles Taylor in the new Convivium
By Raymond J. de Souza
June 16, 2014
In our June/July issue, Comment magazine editor James K.A. Smith wrote on Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor.
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Jim Flaherty: "On Sacrifice"
Raymond J. de Souza
June 5, 2014
The late Jim Flaherty wrote a feature for Convivium that we're publishing this month to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day. Editor-in-chief Fr. Raymond de Souza introduces the article here.
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Small Talk
Raymond J. de Souza
June 1, 2014
Hello Irshad Manji, urbane atheist; goodbye Crad Kilodney, writer of the streets
I don't know if Jansen has ambitions now that Redford has resigned, but Alberta did once have a premier who was a TV journalist before he entered politics In relation to journalism and the spectacular fall of Alison Redford, former Alberta treasurer Ted Morton—defeated by Redford in the 2011 leaders...
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Sea to Sea
Raymond J. de Souza
June 1, 2014
Editor-in-Chief Father Raymond J. de Souza bids farewell to Jim Flaherty and ponders the need for political apologies in Alberta
Jim Flaherty had a great public life, but even the greatest of public lives — and our common life together — only endures to the extent that it touches on those mysteries that lie beyond death, mysteries for which a place like St Thirty years on, it is more difficult to speak in the unadorned, simpl...
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Welcome to Convivium
Raymond J. de Souza
May 14, 2014
"I'm here to illuminate people of religious faith and the contributions they make. They're everywhere, and in Canada they're not talked about enough."
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Francis, the decider
Raymond J. de Souza
May 8, 2014
Fr. de Souza discusses Pope Francis'pontifical style.
VATICAN CITY - Canonization week in Rome was about more than just the new papal saints ...
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Victor Boutros in Ottawa | May 1, 2014
Raymond J. de Souza
May 1, 2014
The Locust Effect co-author Victor Boutros was interviewed by Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings following an appearance in Ottawa May 1, 2014, with International Justice Mission Canada
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Alexandre Havard on Being a Virtuous Follower
Raymond J. de Souza
April 1, 2014
Respected as an authority on what it means to be a virtuous leader, Alexandre Havard also had some advice to offer on virtuous followership. With Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings.
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Small Talk
Raymond J. de Souza
April 1, 2014
Our editor-in-chief ponders Justin Bieber’s detrimental instrumentals
Perhaps Canada Post issued them to point out that other Canadian institutions have also been in long-term decline? No, it turns out you can get any team on your stamps What will the new $1 domestic service stamp look like? A Canada goose being gouged? In any case, I am paying more attention to stamp...
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Sea to Sea
Raymond J. de Souza
April 1, 2014
Father Raymond J. de Souza on the voices of mercy and prophecy in the papacies of Saint John XXXII and Saint John Paul II
Is the world in which the Church lives basically hostile, or is it genuine but misguided? Is it entrenched in a rejection of the Gospel or only immersed in unsatisfying confusions? Is it open to conversion, or must it be defeated? Does it consider religious faith to be a possible path of liberation ...
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Paul Donovan explains the importance of the Loyola Case
Raymond J. de Souza
March 24, 2014
Loyola High School principal Paul Donovan visited Cardus headquarters. Here, he explains the importance of the case that's going before the Supreme Court.
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Rex Murphy in Vancouver | March 6, 2014
Raymond J. de Souza
March 6, 2014
Iconic Canadian journalist Rex Murphy appeared at a Hill Family Lecture Series event with Convivium publisher Peter Stockland in Vancouver March 6, 2014.
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Ross Douthat live in Ottawa
Raymond J. de Souza
February 28, 2014
Hill Family Lecture Series hosted New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in conversation with Convivium editor-in-chief Fr. Raymond J. de Souza February 28, 2014, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Cardinal Dolan in Kingston, February 27, 2014
Raymond J. de Souza
February 27, 2014
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, speaks about Popes St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis and what they teach us about engaging our culture, especially on the university campus.
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From the Holy Land
Raymond J. de Souza
February 15, 2014
Fr. de Souza was delighted to join our prime minister and a broad delegation of faith leaders earlier this year on a trip to Israel.
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Why Convivium?
Raymond J. de Souza
February 1, 2014
The need for fresh voices on faith in our common life seems greater every day, says Fr. de Souza. "I hope you'll join us."
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Sea to Sea
Raymond J. de Souza
February 1, 2014
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza travels to Israel with Prime Minister Stephen Harper
O'Brien, writing on Kurelek's work in the last century of the second millennium, extends his vision to that millennium's first century, detecting "a humanism which had its beginnings as far back as the Great Schism between the Latin and Greek Church, where a difference of theological emphasis regard...
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Small Talk
Raymond J. de Souza
February 1, 2014
Our editor-in-chief's regular miscellany
Tough enough to need a Canada Goose parka? The Canadian company — named after the winged vermin that gives life to the scatological expression "he went through it like s--- through a goose" — has experienced a boom in recent years, with their high-end parkas becoming a most fashionable item Informat...
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Small Talk
Raymond J. de Souza
December 1, 2013
Red-faced Vatican officials withdraw a medallion that has Jesus' name misspelled. What the L hapened? Our editor-in-chief investigates
Oliver Erazo received an exemption for his son, Jonathan, to opt out of religious studies, but he also wants a court order to force the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board to grant a full pass so the Grade 11 student doesn't have to participate in liturgies or religious retreats at Notre Da...
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Sea to Sea
Raymond J. de Souza
December 1, 2013
Father Raymond J. de Souza tells Conservatives why they need more young people of faith in their ranks, and advises Toronto mayor to make some new friends.
My desire is not to comment upon municipal contracting in Montreal, the gas plant cancellation fiasco in Ontario or the Senate expense scandal in Ottawa, but to ask a more fundamental question: Is politics still seen by religious citizens as an endeavour suitable for the pursuit of personal holiness...
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Sea to Sea
Raymond J. de Souza
October 1, 2013
Linking Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama leaves our editor-in-chief uneasy. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage has him seeing dictatorship coming through the door
Anyone conscious of America's original sin—slavery followed by segregation—could not be unmoved by the sight of a black president at the Lincoln Memorial, 50 years to the day after the greatest American speech since Lincoln himself was delivered right there by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr Pre...
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Small Talk
Raymond J. de Souza
October 1, 2013
Paradise in place of parking lots; Stephen Hawking's academic boycott of Israel, and Russell Brand's Messiah Complex
Most of them are heroes with flaws? Hitler is not a hero, and Jesus did not have flaws, so that leaves Che, Malcolm X and the Mahatma as possible taxonomic candidates, and one would find it hard to put the last in the same category as the first two Hawking has been to Israel before, but this time th...
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An Airport By Any Other Name
Raymond J. de Souza
September 9, 2013
What does it matter? Would I trade Chopin airport for the Wojciech Jaruzelski Martial Law Terminal if the bathrooms were rather more easily reachable? I would hope not, because names are important, and airports are the civic gateways of the 21st century, like the great gates on medieval cities Polit...
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Sea to Sea
Raymond J. de Souza
August 1, 2013
Father Raymond J. de Souza reflects on the four magisterial September lectures Pope Benedict XVI delivered during his eight-year pontificate
So why, if that was Benedict's main point, get into Islam at all? Why the incendiary late-14th century quotation from Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus—the one that ostensibly set off riots on the inflammable Muslim street? "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will f...