

‘How to Be a Catholic Author’ interview on the Catholic Homeschool Podcast
Hi friends, I'm so pleased to join Paola Ciskanik, founder of Catholic Homeschool Online, on her podcast to talk about this whole CatholicAuthor adventure. Check out her original post here. Do you or one of your teens feel a passion for writing but don’t know where to...

Dominic de Souza
SmartCatholics founder | Marketer & storyteller. Geeks over epics, mystics, science, the angelic, & movies.
Latest posts, reviews, stories and working theories:
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...
How we find unity, order, and splendor in Dance
Several years ago, a friend shared her thoughts on the beauty of ballet, and I was so struck by it all, I asked to share it online. It deserves to be out there. Her notes strike me with this thought: Every moment of every day, our lives are filled with unintentional...
Myths & Meaning – ‘Quote Me’ Podcast Interview with Lindsay Schlegel & Dominic de Souza
"We’re delighted to spend time with Dominic de Souza, founder of DreamAgain and SmartCatholics, and a dad with a small family and a smaller corgi. "Tolkien is a popular choice this season (and we’re not complaining!). This quote comes from his essay “On...
Sitting in a quiet room | Writing exercise
It's a weird sense. A strange sense. Walking into a silent room, a silent house, surrounding by a silent town. Wrapped in quiet fields. No internet. None of the ADHD hum and click and swish and swipe of a network, or of social media. No notifications. Sitting down on...