Catholic Online Dating Advice
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Will I Find My Catholic Match on a Mobile App like Tinder?
Nov 13 2018By Chloe LangrIf you’re thinking about looking for your Catholic match on a mobile app, thoughts about other dating apps may cross your mind. Is it possible to find the love of your life on Tinder? Or should you just focus on putting together a profile on a ...
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How to Make Thanksgiving Meaningful, Even If You’re Not Feeling Grateful
Nov 11 2018By Adrienne ThorneGrowing up, Thanksgiving was a big deal in my family. Mostly, because it was a reason for my large extended family to gather together. We had some fun, and of course ate some delicious food as well. But we never did that thing you always see on TV wh...
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7 Romantic Fall Dates, No Matter Where You Live
Nov 10 2018By Laura CraverWe’re elbows deep in the fall sweater season, and the forecast says this is the perfect time for romance. Fall is a magical time for dating. With a change of scenery, everything feels new. Plus, there’s the opportunity to cuddle. You gott...
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Dateworthy? “Beautiful Boy”
Nov 09 2018By Carl KozlowskiIs the new “Beautiful Boy” film worth a date night this weekend? No. The movie is a true-life tale of a father fighting to help his teen son overcome drug addiction. It has powerful performances, no doubt. But it wastes too much time stuc...
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30 Encouraging Bible Verses For Every Step of Your Relationship
Nov 08 2018By Cassi VillanuevaWhat would you do if while perusing the aisles of Barnes and Noble one day, you stumbled upon a book containing pages and pages of inspiring, uplifting, and encouraging Bible verses full of advice about every single stage of relationships? What I tol...
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How to Fit Prayer into a New Relationship
Nov 06 2018By Chloe LangrAre you wanting to add more prayer into your life, or are just trying to remember how to say the rosary? You may have heard the saying, “The family that prays together, stays together.” But as a young adult, how do you fit praying and the...
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5 Dating Lessons That Saints Louis and Zelie Martin Taught Me
Nov 04 2018By Chloe LangrWhen it comes to friendship with the saints, it can be challenging to pick a favorite. After all, they’re all holy men and women, offering unique stories on their path to Heaven. If I had to pick my favorites, Edith Stein, John Paul the Great, Mari...
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4 Things to Consider Before Going on the Second Date
Nov 03 2018By Adrienne ThorneSometimes, making plans for that second date is an easy move. Maybe the chemistry on your first date was obvious and apparent immediately. The two of you just clicked, and it’s clear that the other person feels the same way. But it doesn’t al...
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Dateworthy? “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Nov 02 2018By Carl KozlowskiIs “Bohemian Rhapsody” worth a weekend date night this week? Yes! “Bohemian Rhapsody” tells the story of one of rock’s most flamboyant showmen. It provides a rollicking good time that’s like seeing a concert and a movie ro...
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Traditional Catholic Dating today: How to Stay True to Your Beliefs
Nov 01 2018By MarkFor a traditional Catholic, trying to enter into the online dating world can make you feel like a mouse at an elephant convention: it’s somewhat terrifying and it feels like everybody is looking down on you. Any Catholic who decides to live a l...
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.