Father Raymond J. de Souza, 50, was ordained a Catholic priest on 20th July 2002 for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario. He currently serves as Chaplain at Newman House (since 2004), the Roman Catholic chaplaincy at Queen’s University. Since 2014 he has served on the Board of Directors of Catholic Christian Outreach, the leading campus evangelization movement in Canada.

In 2019, he was elected chairman of the board. He is the Pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary Parish (since 2006) on Wolfe Island – the largest of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River – where he lives. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. He is a Senior Fellow for Cardus, Canada’s leading Christian think tank.

Since 2006, Father de Souza has taught a senior undergraduate seminar in the Queen’s Economics Department, Econ 480: Philosophical Issues in Economics. The seminar examines fundamental economic issues beyond mere quantitative models. He is a Continuing Adjunct instructor at Queen’s University. He served for fifteen seasons, 2004-2019, as chaplain for the Queen’s Golden Gaels football team, including the 2009 Vanier Cup national championship season.
Father de Souza has written a weekly column for the National Post for more seventeen years, since 2004. He has been a contributor to the National Post since its first month in October 1998.