Catholic Online Dating Advice
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Is it Ever Okay to Ghost Someone?
Apr 05 2020By Adrienne ThorneThese days, most people know what ghosting is. Even the less trendy and fad-savvy among us have most likely heard of this very common dating trend where someone deserts their significant other and leaves no trace of themselves. Particularly in the Ca...
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Confessions of a Catholic Dater
Apr 03 2020By Carl KozlowskiOften I’ll hear my friends talk about how hard it is out there in the dating world. But you haven’t really felt relationship stress and confusion unless you were raised Catholic. My dad grew up in Poland, a nation that’s practically more Cathol...
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Not Getting Messages? Here are 8 Things to Do Today
Apr 02 2020By Adrienne ThorneMost of us have heard of great online dating success stories from our friends, relatives, and even random acquaintances. But if you begin online dating with an expectation of instant success yourself, you’ll most likely be disappointed. A lot of pe...
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What Sets Catholic Dating Apart?
Mar 31 2020By Cassi VillanuevaDo you ever find yourself thinking that this whole online dating thing is really hard? Like, really hard? As frustrating as it can be to feel caught in the seemingly never ending cycle of online dating, it’s important to count your blessings. I...
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8 Questions to Ask Your Partner If You’re Discerning Marriage Together
Mar 29 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsSo you think you’ve found a good partner, a good helpmate to walk this earthly life to sanctity with. Well, there are some questions you should ask each other before you say, “I do!” Make sure to have a meaningful conversation (or ...
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15 Quotes From the Saints on Love and Friendship
Mar 28 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsWe know we can look to the saints in all circumstances of our lives, so we should also look to them to understand love and friendship more deeply. Of course, married saints are often the first we look to for this. That makes sense, as they walked thi...
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Dateworthy – Quarantine Edition: John Hughes Classics
Mar 27 2020By Carl KozlowskiAs the Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic of the Pasadena Weekly from July 2009-August 2019, I saw and reviewed hundreds of movies as they were ideally meant to be presented: in movie theaters. But now, two of the nation’s largest theater chains,...
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How Do You Know If It’s Time to Get Off a Dating App?
Mar 26 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsThere are all sorts of reasons and circumstances that can make us decide it’s time to quit the dating app game, or to take a break. Sometimes, you’re aware of that need to get off and try a different route. But other times, you may not to...
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The Advice I Wish I Had as a Catholic Single Ten Years Ago
Mar 24 2020By Patty BreenTen years ago I was twenty-four years old. I was working in my first full time lay ministry job at a parish and toying with the idea of going to graduate school. I was navigating dating as an emotionally insecure young woman. Ten years later, I am a ...
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Don’t Let Coronavirus Kill Your Love Life: Your Coronavirus Online Dating Guide
Mar 22 2020By Adrienne ThorneChances are, your social life is starting to look a bit different lately. A lot of activities we’ve all taken for granted are quickly becoming not an option for us, whether by choice or by mandate. If your favorite way to meet new people to date is...
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.