Catholic Online Dating Advice
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6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Date Someone You’re Not Attracted To
Jul 07 2020By Cassi VillanuevaYou’ve met someone and they check all the boxes. They’re smart, funny, and strong in their faith. In the Catholic dating world, this kind of match is a dream! But there’s just one problem. You’re not attracted to them. Of all the th...
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Introverts, Here’s How to Send That First Online Dating Message
Jul 05 2020By Chloe LangrAt first glance, it seems like online dating is the perfect answer for any introvert looking for love. You can meet people at your own pace and spend as much time as you need writing out that first message. But after you’ve spent time making su...
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How to Talk About Your Past with Someone You’re Dating
Jul 04 2020By Patty BreenI’ve been married before. After my annulment came through and I started dating again, I was nervous about how to approach this topic of my past relationship. Past experiences of being probed and asked too many questions in the early stages of g...
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You Need a Summer Dating Strategy
Jul 02 2020By Adrienne ThorneIt’s pretty easy to get into a rut in our dating lives. A lot of us might use the same apps, websites, and in-person strategies all year round. If this is you, you might be missing a great opportunity to increase your chances of success. According ...
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5 Things to Keep in Mind If You’re a Catholic Dating After Divorce
Jun 30 2020By Patty BreenI’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life so far, many of which came from the season when I was previously married. Looking back on that chapter in my life, I can see clearly my mistakes and the red flags I missed. After my annulment went through...
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5 Things Catholic Women Should Look for in a Man
Jun 27 2020By Adrienne ThorneNot everyone would agree on what sorts of qualities women should look for in a man, to have the best possibility of a successful relationship. When it comes to Catholic dating, the answer to this question might be a little different than it would be ...
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First Time on a Dating App? Make Sure You Do These 5 Things
Jun 26 2020By Patty BreenCatholic dating can be anything from weird and frustrating to exciting and surprising. Until the last time I tried online dating, I had never used dating apps before. I had really only tried online dating websites. But during this most recent online ...
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5 Online Dating Risks You Need to Take This Summer
Jun 25 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsSummer can be a great time to take some (calculated) risks and venture outside your online dating comfort zone. This summer, we’re encouraging you to do something new and exciting in your dating life. Don’t know where to start? Here are s...
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3 Novenas to Pray if Your Heart is Broken
Jun 23 2020By Adrienne ThorneThere is nothing quite like the pain of a breakup. In fact, a broken heart can sometimes feel as if it will never heal. While are many things you can do if you’re struggling with the pain of heartbreak, perhaps the best way to begin the healing pro...
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Patron Saints to Keep Your Summer Catholic Dating Fruitful
Jun 21 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsSaints–we have one for everything! Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers. There’s patrons saints for widows, doctor, lawyers, and gravediggers. Anything you can imagine, there’s a patron saint for it! Our summer Catholic dating endeavors...
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.