Catholic Online Dating Advice
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St. Charles Lwanga and Companions: Models of Chasity Amidst Great Difficulty
Jun 02 2020By Adrienne ThorneLooking at today’s society, it’s not hard to see that the virtue of chastity is under great assault in our world today. Even for those of us who have the best intentions to remain pure, staying the course can prove to be very difficult in the...
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Struggling to Find Catholic Community? Pray to St. Philip Neri
May 26 2020By Adrienne ThorneThe life of a single Catholic can be solitary and lonely in even the best of times. Let’s face it, we’re not really in the best of times here in good old 2020. Even without the social distancing and lock downs, many Catholics struggle to find gen...
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Healthy Ways to Embrace Vulnerability in Your Dating Life
May 23 2020By Patty BreenDo you ever feel like there are certain buzzwords that go through phases of popularity? Authenticity. Community. Fellowship. Missionary Discipleship. Vulnerability. Out of all of those buzzwords, one that I think especially applies to online dating...
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Should You Start a Relationship While Social Distancing?
May 19 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsShould you start a relationship while social distancing? There’s not necessarily a blanket right or wrong answer to that question. Every person and every relationship is different. What might be a deal breaker for you might not give someone els...
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Creative Dating App Profiles to Attract Your First Date
May 17 2020By Adrienne ThorneThe bad news about online dating is that there is no one secret formula to guarantee success. There’s no one perfect way to craft a profile that is sure to gain attention and attract a date for you. The good news is that there are some tips and bes...
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The Best Bible Verses for Keeping Your Heart in Check
May 16 2020By Patty BreenYears ago in high school, I was somewhat involved in our parish youth ministry program. Every spring we went on retreat to a beautiful Benedictine retreat center about an hour away, tucked far away off a dirt road. The weekend was equal parts prayer ...
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18 Drives Across the USA That Are Perfect for a Social Distance Date
May 14 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsDriving is a great way to get to know someone. So much time sequestered in a vehicle together, facing the open road leads to plenty to talk about! Especially in this time of social distancing, scenic or iconic drives can be the perfect first date to ...
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5 Lessons You Can Learn from a Hard Breakup
May 12 2020By Patty BreenBreakups are never easy. Maybe you have been on the receiving end of one, or perhaps you made the difficult decision to end a relationship. Several years ago, I had to end a relationship after I lost peace about moving forward with a future together....
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These Are the Best Online Catholic Dating Profiles, Without a Doubt
May 10 2020By Cassi VillanuevaWhen it comes to online dating, nothing gives you a good shot at being successful like having a really good profile. In many of our Catholic dating articles you’ll see us point to the fact that you shouldn’t slack on your profile. Doing so wi...
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If You’re Not Doing This on Your Dating App, Start Today
May 09 2020By Adrienne ThorneIt is exciting to make an online dating profile and find a match. But anyone who has been online dating for a while can attest that meeting someone online doesn’t always lead to a relationship. A lot can go awry between that initial online meeting ...
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.