Catholic Online Dating Advice
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What Does the Bible Have to Say About Marriage?
May 23 2019By Cassi VillanuevaMarriage isn’t complicated. There, I said it. Sure today’s society has made traditional marriage almost completely unrecognizable, but if you look to God’s spoken word in the form of the Bible, you’ll find that marriage is a pretty straight f...
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Here Are the Top Online Dating Mistakes We See on Catholic Singles
May 21 2019By Adrienne ThorneThere’s no denying that online dating has become a prominent aspect of today’s dating landscape. We’ve probably all heard of people who’ve had great success finding long-term relationships through online dating sites. Perhaps even some of our...
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Why Catholics Should Avoid the Enneagram
May 19 2019By Chloe LangrThe Enneagram is gaining popularity. It seems like everyone from celebrities to Instagram influencers are chatting about their whether they’re fours or fives, and how their Enneagram impacts their personal growth. But before you take the test a...
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5 Things to Do When Loneliness Feels Unavoidable
May 18 2019By Erin MillerLoneliness. For some singles, it’s almost as if loneliness is their only companion. It was shortly after I started writing for Catholic Singles that I (rather ironically) started dating someone. I’m nearly 28 now, but before he and I started ...
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Dateworthy? “The Hustle”
May 17 2019By Carl KozlowskiDATEWORTHY? YES. The story of two female scam artists, one low-rent played by Rebel Wilson and the other high-class played by Anne Hathaway, who team up to take down the men who have wronged them, “The Hustle” has a fair amount of laughs but occa...
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Unique Ways to Spend Time Together in a Long Distance Relationship
May 16 2019By Cassi VillanuevaStaying connected in a long distance relationship can be challenging because it can be hard to feel close to someone who is literally miles and miles away. Email and Instagram are great, but if a dating relationship is going to survive, it needs more...
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Should You Date A Non-Catholic?
May 12 2019By Adrienne ThorneIt’s not always easy to find other Catholic singles that we’re interested in romantically. Sometimes, the potential dating pool can feel pretty small. This is especially true when it’s narrowed to only those who share our faith in the Catholic ...
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Unconventional Ways to Honor Our Mother
May 11 2019By Erin MillerIn this month of Mary, there will be a lot of daily rosaries and flower crowning ceremonies—both of which are absolutely wonderful and beautiful. Let’s take it a step further and bring that devotion to our heavenly mother out into our very mundan...
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According to Psychology, What Personality Type is Your Match?
May 09 2019By Cassi VillanuevaWhen considering the type of person you are dating (or looking to date) personality type should be pretty high on the list. You may meet someone that matches all of the criteria on your “ideal date” list . However, if their personality isn’t co...
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6 Ways to Build Trust in Your Long Distance Relationship
May 07 2019By Chloe LangrDo you trust your partner in your long distance relationship? If the answer is yes, here’s another question: How do you know you can trust each other? Have you truly built up trust between the two of you, or is it possible that you just haven&#...
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.