| Raymond de Souza March 22, 2012  | "Cardinal Gracias was kind enough to say that he was proud that a 'son of India' was making this contribution to public life in Canada. Indo-Canadians have every right to be proud, for there are many of us making our own contributions." . . . Read article |
| Chris Miller March 19, 2012  | "Living in a secular culture that shoves faith to the margins of public life, and after years of writing his weekly newspaper column for the National Post and contributing regularly to the WCR and other Catholic newspapers, Father Raymond de Souza discovered "there is a real desire in our country and in our culture for places that take the role of faith seriously." . . . Read article |
| Nathan Rumohr March 16, 2012  | "Convivium seeks to inject faith into Canada's often secularly driven culture. Speaking at the Vancouver Club for Convivium's Vancouver launch, Father de Souza said that Canada cannot ignore faith because it is part of history." . . . Read article |
| Malin Jordan March 7, 2012 | "Here's hoping their voice will clang some cymbals in the secular halls of this land to open up, and reignite, debate—to bring the conversation back, to bring back that faith in our common life." . . . Read article |
| Christopher S. Morrissey March 2, 2012 | "We are an age swollen with produced goods and foul moods. What we want our magazine to contribute to cultivating is exactly what the quote from Illich conveys: that kind of convivium where the joy is situated in the gathering more than the gobbling." . . . Read article |
| Douglas Todd February 2, 2012  | "This is the second time in the past few months in which Blaikie has been honoured by Christians who are generally from the conservative side of the spectrum. The respected Canadian journal, Convivium, recently published a lengthy article by Blaikie headlined: 'The God Squad has a left-wing too.'" . . . Read article |
| R.R. Reno February 1, 2012  | "Our good friend and sometime writer Fr. Raymond de Souza is the editor-in-chief of a new magazine in Canada, Convivium. As the subtitle 'Faith in our common life' suggests, it aims to fill the same space in Canada that First Things fills in America." . . . Read blurb |
| Peter Stockland January 3, 2012  | The launch of the office of religious freedom is being met with criticism because of a seeming lack of diversity. Michael Coren and guest Peter Stockland take a closer look. |
| Robert White December 19, 2011  | "Convivium, Latin for "common life," will build both a sense of community and a sense of commonality within diversity, says Stockland. A glance at the journal's masthead shows this: Stockland and de Souza come from the Catholic tradition while Cardus has its roots in the Reformed tradition." . . . Read article |
| Fr. Daniel Callam December 2011  | "This preview is meant to lure its readers into subscribing to a new bimonthly magazine that will be launched officially early next year. . . . The new magazine tus provides a nice complement to Catholic Insight and can be recommended to its subscribers." . . . Read article |
| Raymond de Souza December 12, 2011 | Host Michael Coren speaks with Fr. Raymond de Souza, editor-in-chief of Convivium, on the new Canadian Office of Religious Freedom, and on the launch of Convivium. |
| Raymond de Souza November 29, 2011  | "Cardus is Protestant, while Peter and I are Catholics, so this project is ecumenical in nature. Indeed, it's for all Canadians who take seriously the role of faith in our common life together. We know that Canadian common life—culture, economics, politics, sports, music, education, business, history—needs the contribution of religious faith, and of faithful Canadians. We think our new magazine is necessary too, as a service to that larger project." . . . Read article |
| Peter Menzies November 8, 2011  | "This is why the new Cardus periodical publication Convivium (faith in our common life), is so vital to the sustenance — some would say resuscitation — of the conversations that hold us together." . . . Read article |
| Lloyd Mackey October 26, 2011  | "The divergent, yet substantively common, roots of the two groups are well reflected in Convivium." . . . Read article |
| Marc Montgomery October 25, 2011  | Radio interview. "Convivium is a new magazine that aims, not to reinforce the separation of Church and State; but to encourage cooperation between the two. We talk to the magazine's publisher, veteran journalist Peter Stockland, about the magazine's mission, and its place in Canadian discourse." Download MP3 |
| Catholic Register Staff October 19, 2011 | "More than two years in the making, Canada has a new magazine that intends to inject the voice of faith into public debates." . . . Read article |
| Benjamin Mann October 19, 2011  | "Two Canadian Catholics—one priest and one layman—have launched a new journal aimed at starting an intellectual dialogue on the public role of religion in their country." . . . Read article |
| Joseph Brean October 18, 2011 | "A current affairs magazine about religion in politics that claims to take its 'marching orders' from Pope Benedict XVI, and whose editor-in-chief is a Catholic priest outranked by his best known contributor, the Archbishop of Ottawa, was always going to seem a bit Catholic for the general news shelf." . . . Read article |
| Steven Chase October 18, 2011  | "Religion, politics and civic debate mix awkwardly in official Ottawa these days—the legacy of sustained efforts to separate church and state—but one Christian-led think tank is trying to ease conversation about faith back into intelligent discourse. " . . . Read article |
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Fr. Raymond de Souza
Peter Stockland
The one weakness of Michael Coren's new book Why Catholics Are Right is that it is wrong, or at least its title is.