Why we need the great rituals of Halloween
With my little girl 8 years old this year, I've wanted to sit and think through my objections to Halloween, as a cultural thing, as a psychological thing. Halloween as we see it today is a more recent thing, within the last century. I think it is largely obsessed over...
Dominic de Souza
SmartCatholics founder | Marketer & storyteller. Geeks over epics, mystics, science, the angelic, & movies.
Latest posts, reviews, stories and working theories:
Why Catholics respect Horror as a genre
I have a growing respect for horror as a genre. But I have never enjoyed them. I don't think that's possible. As a little kid, I was shattered and terrified at the black and white transformation of a man into a werewolf on late night tv. Later on in my early 20s, I...
Free Course: How to be a Catholic Author | Helping authors write exciting novels, connect faith with fiction, and be better Catholics!
6 years ago, I turned my thoughts on being an author into an ebook. in 2021, it's now updated as a course with 9 lessons, available for free through SmartCatholics! Are you excited to write a novel full of drama and meaning? Help your creative novel be the best it can...
A Smart Catholic Homeschooling Dad | Episode 91 on ‘The Homeschooling Saints Podcast’ by Homeschool Connections
One of the positives of our unusual times is that a lot more working fathers are at home and contributing to the education of their children. And that is a beautiful thing. Today our guest is the very clever creator of SmartCatholics.com, homeschooling dad, Dominic de...
Fighting the ‘call to holiness’
Sometimes I think that if you're not in battle with God, you might not be moving at all. The meaning of 'Israel' is the God-Wrestler, someone who 'contends with God'. I think we all need to go through that challenge, if only that we can be broken by it. I'm not saying...
I lost my apocalypse… now what?
Apocalypses are fantastic tools to get people moving, to get them to do what you want them to do. As someone raised on the thin gruel of an apocalyptic future, I should know—our leaders kept us paralyzed or frenzied with fear at the amount of demonic activity going...
Tolkien’s dream of a world beyond war, the evolution of virtue, & our call as storytellers
Summary: The World Wars seemed to birth an unlikely legend, the saga of Middle Earth. Tolkien wove a new mythology for humanity, to help us move beyond a nostalgia for violence. Our world needs new stories, rooted in the goodness of the world, in the merriment of...
Free Course!
How to be a Catholic Author
Helping authors write exciting novels, connect faith with fiction, and be better Catholics!
