Catholic Online Dating Advice
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The Dating Trend Called “Wokefishing” and Why You Should Avoid It
Aug 09 2020By Adrienne ThorneYou’ve probably heard of catfishing, when online dating users create a totally fake identity to get a date. You might have even heard of kittenfishing, when someone misleads potential dates with little white lies about themselves online. But do...
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3 Steps to Take if Online Dating is Becoming a Near Occasion of Jealousy
Aug 08 2020By Adrienne ThorneThe world of social media can definitely lead us into a trap of comparison in the worst ways. It’s easy to look at someone’s perfect Instagram and become jealous of what another’s life seems to be. But jealousy can also rear its ugly head on on...
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Here’s Why Incompatibility Matters in a Relationship, According to the Experts
Aug 06 2020By Chloe LangrI’ll always remember a story that my mom told me about when her and my dad were dating. They were spending time with my mom’s best friend and her family. At one point, her best friend’s dad pulled her aside. He asked my mom if she l...
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What Do You Want in a Partner? Here’s How to Know
Aug 04 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsDo you have a checklist of qualities that you’re looking for in a partner? This might not be the best way to go about knowing what you want in a spouse. After all, sometimes someone checks off every box on your list but there’s no attract...
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6 Things to Never Do on a First Date
Aug 02 2020By Cassi VillanuevaYou took a chance on finding love through online dating and you met someone! Now, it’s time to go on the first date. If you’re like most Catholic singles, you may be a little (okay, a lot) nervous. After all, messaging someone online and meeting ...
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3 Things Every Catholic Single Should Know About Cookie Jarring
Aug 01 2020By Adrienne Thorne“Cooking jarring” is an online dating trend that sounds like a cliched plot line from an episode of Boy Meets World or Growing Pains. Unfortunately, cookie jarring a potential partner is not just the stuff of sitcoms. It’s a trend that...
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7 Catholic Singles You Need to be Following on Instagram
Jul 30 2020By Patty BreenIn the fast-paced scrolls of Instagram land, it can be all too easy to look at the photos of happy married couples or a friend announcing her new engagement and not feel a twinge of sadness. Sometimes those posts leave me wondering when it will be my...
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Discouraged by Catholic Dating? Here’s How St. Martha Can Help
Jul 28 2020By Adrienne ThorneIf you’re a Catholic single, you’re probably familiar with the life of Saint Martha, the friend of Jesus who is mentioned throughout the Gospels. Remember the story of Jesus praising Mary’s attentiveness and rebuking Martha’s ...
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Is Your Online Dating Profile Causing You to Miss Out on Your Dream Date?
Jul 26 2020By Cassi VillanuevaWithout a doubt, your online dating profile is an important part of your online Catholic dating journey. You can find the best Catholic dating website there is and still fall short if your profile doesn’t speak to others online dating users. Many...
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Not Getting Messages? Here Are 5 Things to Try If You Feel Like Giving up on Online Dating
Jul 25 2020By Patty BreenAre you not getting the kind of messages you were hoping for when you made an online dating profile on a Catholic dating site like Catholic Singles? Maybe your messages are never returned, or perhaps people aren’t intentional when they do respo...
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.