Catholic Online Dating Advice
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Dateworthy: “Blinded by the Light”
Aug 16 2019By Chloe LangrIs “Blinded by the Light” worth a date night this weekend? We give it a resounding YES! The movie is a coming-of-age tale about a Pakistani Muslim teenage boy who dreams of becoming a writer. He finds his voice by listening to the powerfu...
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Should You Ask Out Someone You Just Met?
Aug 15 2019By Adrienne ThorneThanks to the hookup culture that’s emerged in recent years, it can be particularly hard for Catholics to know what’s appropriate when it comes time to ask someone out. What gives someone the wrong impression? How do you start a holy relationship...
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Want to Pray with the Bible? Here’s How to Start
Aug 13 2019By Cassi VillanuevaHave you ever opened the Bible with the intent of entering into prayer, only to close it because you’re not really sure where to begin? Sure you can read it, flip through it and find Bible quotes that inspire you in the moment. But everyone gets wo...
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This May Be the Reason You’re Struggling to Heal from a Breakup
Aug 11 2019By Erin MillerA breakup is painful, lonely, and hard to navigate. How much time do you need to mourn the end of a romantic relationship before you can move on to the next chapter? How do you know if you’re ready to start dating again, or when you should fill o...
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Dateworthy: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Aug 09 2019By Carl KozlowskiIs “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” a sweet tearjerker adaptation of the bestselling novel by Garth Stein, worth your date night trip to the movies? Yes! This movie is beautiful to look at. It has an equally beautiful score, relatable cha...
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8 Pope Francis Quotes to Read If You’re Struggling with Loneliness
Aug 08 2019By Adrienne ThorneOur world is battling against an epidemic of loneliness. In fact, people are dying of loneliness today. For singles in the Catholic Church, this struggle against loneliness can be intense and all too common. If the Lord is calling you to the vocation...
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How to Create an Online Dating Profile if you Hate Talking About Yourself
Aug 04 2019By Adrienne ThorneOnline dating can be difficult for anyone. But there’s one particular aspect of dating sites that can feel quite daunting if you happen to tend toward shyness: The online dating profile. You haven’t even met any online daters yet, and already you...
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How to Pray When It Feels like You Have No Time
Aug 03 2019By Erin MillerI once had a great spiritual mentor who greatly emphasized the urgency of creating a prayer routine. He said, “Don’t put off creating a prayer routine—you’re not suddenly going to gain more time as you get older. Make it a priorit...
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Dateworthy: Hobbs and Shaw
Aug 02 2019By Carl KozlowskiIs “Hobbs and Shaw,” the ninth film in the Fast and Furious universe worth a date night? YES! This movie brings together archrivals US super-agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and British super-agent Shaw (Jason Statham). They’re teaming ...
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Thinking About a Grand Romantic Gesture? Answer These 3 Questions First
Aug 01 2019By Adrienne ThorneYou just need to watch a few romantic comedies to get the idea that a grand gesture goes hand in hand with being in love. All you need is a string quartet, a jumbotron, a choreographed dance, or a serenade from a boombox you’re holding up outside a...
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.