Catholic Online Dating Advice

Be Inspired by Saint Lucy this Advent
Dec 12 2019By Adrienne Thorne
The feast of Saint Lucy falls right in the middle of Advent each year. In some cultures, the feast day of St. Lucy, or St. Lucia’s Day as it’s sometimes called, is a big part of the Advent tradition. Because her feast day falls right around the s...
Dateworthy? “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”
Dec 06 2019By Carl Kozlowski
Is “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” worth a date night during the holiday season? YES! This incredibly moving and beautifully acted film follows the real-life, unusual and life-changing friendship that developed between beloved child...
How to Keep the Awkward Dating Trend of Pocketing from Ruining Your Holiday Season
Dec 05 2019By Adrienne Thorne
The holiday season is here. For a lot of us, it’s that time of year when family members and friends get together for festivities and fellowship. And if you’re single, this can also sometimes be a very awkward time of year. No one really loves the...
A Meditation on Gratitude
Dec 03 2019By Erin Miller
It’s always true of the season of thanksgiving that it leads us into the Christmas season with a more grateful heart. But I think it’s especially fitting given that this year, Thanksgiving happens merely a few days before Advent begins. As we ent...
Went on the First Date? Here’s What to Do Next
Nov 30 2019By Patty Breen
The first date. It can feel exciting and scary all wrapped into one. For a while, it seemed I was going on lots of not-so-great first dates for a variety of reasons. I felt tired, frustrated, and annoyed. Sometimes I was left feeling defeated, wonder...
Dateworthy? “Ford v Ferrari”
Nov 29 2019By Mark
Is Ford v Ferrari worth a date night this week? Yes! Fueled by two terrific lead performances by Matt Damon and Christian Bale, this fast-charging true story of a race-car designer and a hotheaded, fast-driving mechanic who overcome their differences...
St. Catherine of Alexandria: Courage in Battle for the Faith and Her Vocation
Nov 26 2019By Adrienne Thorne
November 25th marks the feast day of St. Catherine of Alexandria. When we hear the name St. Catherine, we might first think of Doctor of the Church St. Catherine of Sienna, who did a lot of great work for the Church during the Middle Ages. But St. Ca...
Struggle with Depression? Here’s What You Need to Know About Online Dating
Nov 24 2019By Erin Miller
I live with a cornucopia of mental illness. I hate the phrase, but it’s clinical, so I’ll use it. These mental illnesses are all of varying degrees, but not so paralyzing that I am unable to live my life relatively unencumbered. That said...
How to Introduce Your Significant Other to Your Family
Nov 23 2019By emily
The first time my parents met my boyfriend (now husband) was a complete comedy of errors. The meeting took place over brunch at a Perkins, and everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong. Highlights include the waitress asking us to move to a...
Dateworthy? “Midway”
Nov 22 2019By Carl Kozlowski
Is “Midway” a great choice for your date night this weekend? Yes, but . . . This World War II epic from the director of classic blockbusters “Independence Day” and “2012” has incredible battle scenes thanks to the ...

The Catholic online dating world can be a wonderful place, but it can also leave you with a number of questions.

While you can be certain that people you meet will share your faith, what does that exactly mean?

How serious are they about their faith? Are they more traditionalist, or more progressive in their views? And, just like any other relationship, how do you navigate first date jitters, or whether you should go on a second date?

The CatholicSingles blog is a place for dating advice from Catholic writers who love their faith and draw on the church’s teachings and traditions to answer some of the biggest questions facing Catholic singles today in the online dating world.

Bringing Church Teachings to Catholic Online Dating

The church’s fundament views on love, dating, and marriage differ in a lot of ways than those of society in general. Most of us, however, were raised in a culture that has shaped our views on the ideas of what a relationship, what dating, and what marriage should be.

The CatholicSingles blog is written with the church’s views in mind. We draw heavily on the church’s teachings and viewpoints on love, marriage, relationships, and, most importantly, the nature of the person. Our hope is to provide insights into how a faithful Catholic can approach online dating in today’s world.

In many ways, online dating contradicts basic viewpoints of the church. While a lot of good, Catholic marriages have come from online dating sites, most services treat their members like products rather than persons who have dignity.

Our hope is to restore the dignity of the individual to online dating, both through our services and also through our blog.

Catholic Online Dating: Your Survival Guide

Dating can be part of God’s plan for you, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy.

If we look to secular dating advice, you will certainly run into ideas and suggestions that are difficult to merge with our Catholic values.

Within our faith, however, there isn’t always a lot of great advice either.

That’s why our blog offers tips and advice for people just like you.

Our hopes and goals are to offer a way forward through the online dating world to help you find fellowship and love in a way that is consistent with your values. We pull in a lot of secular dating advice and try to separate that which is compatible with our faith, that which is opposed, and that which we can still learn from, but change slightly to be more in line with our beliefs. We look at fun questions such as easy conversation starters and also tackle the hard questions such as dating for divorced Catholics.

In addition to helping you navigate the Catholic online dating environment, our hope is that our articles deepen your faith through prayer, service, and preparing yourself for the vocation that God has called you to.

It is our belief that the single life shouldn’t just be a season of waiting. It should be an enriching time of your life where you grow in love: love of God, love of other people, and love for yourself!

Advice Drawn from the Teachings of the Church

When we write a blog piece, we try to draw on the teachings of the church: teachings on what it means to be human, our purpose in life, and how the vocation of marriage should shape us to come closer to God.

Multiple surveys show that committed Catholic marriages are some of the happiest and most content marriages in society. We firmly believe this is because these couples have taken the time to learn and live out their marriage in a Catholic way.

While there is a lot of confusion (and misinformation) about what the church actually teaches, our hope is to help clarify some of the most common relationship questions we face on a daily basis.