Catholic Online Dating Advice
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Writer’s Block? Here’s What to Say in Your First Online Dating Message
Mar 21 2020By Patty BreenSo you’ve tried everything else in terms of Catholic dating and have decided to take the chance on deciding to pay for a membership on CatholicSingles. Imagine this scenario with me. You pay and create your account with equal amounts of excitem...
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Catholic Singles is 100% Free Through the End of March
Mar 20 2020By MarkMy Archdiocese recently suspended all masses. I know for most of you, your reality is the same. Over the past few weeks, we’ve all experienced our normal lives ripped away from us. Everything from our jobs to being able to buy toilet paper feel...
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What This Silent Saint Can Teach Us About Catholic Dating
Mar 19 2020By Patty BreenI have often found it difficult to relate to saints or holy men and women that have a radically different temperament or personality style from my own. Padre Pio would have been intimidating to me with all of his spiritual gifts and bi-location. I th...
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What I’ve Learned About Trust (and Shamrocks!) from Saint Patrick
Mar 17 2020By Adrienne ThorneSaint Patrick is celebrated today in America and elsewhere with a flurry of green decorations, shamrocks, and probably some partying. As Catholics, hopefully we’re not falling into the trap of using this saint’s feast day just as an excuse for ex...
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Why Learning About Your Love Language as a Single Matters for Your Future Relationship
Mar 15 2020By Patty BreenHas your definition of love changed over the years? I know mine has. As a little girl and even into young adulthood (embarrassingly enough!), I had the most backwards ideas about what love is and what it means to be loved by another person. I was s...
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Dateworthy? Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Mar 13 2020By Carl KozlowskiIs NBC’s series “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” worth a date night at home? This zesty, vibrant musical comedy is the perfect way to kick your week off with a fun time, if you’re in the mood to chill out with your loved ...
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9 Tips for Getting to Know Someone on a Dating App
Mar 12 2020By Adrienne ThorneCritics of online dating might very well argue that you just can’t get to know someone online. In the past, this was probably somewhat true. It’s always more difficult to get a true sense of what the other person is like when you’re only intera...
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How to Deal with Unwelcome Messages on Online Dating Apps
Mar 10 2020By Adrienne ThorneGetting messages on an online dating app can be incredibly exciting. A message could be the great start to a conversation with a person who is very interested in you and interesting to you. Or, an online dating app message could be the exact opposite...
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12 Lenten Sacrifices for Catholic Singles
Mar 05 2020By Cassi VillanuevaIs anyone else as excited for Lent as I am? After the cold, dark and dreary days of January and February, I can honestly say that having forty days to focus on a specific purpose sounds amazing. Don’t get me wrong, I love the holidays. Time with fa...
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The One Book Every Catholic Single Needs to Read
Mar 03 2020By Patty BreenWhat if I told you the book I think every Catholic single should read isn’t even written by a Catholic, but a Jewish marriage therapist? Some of you may think I was crazy. Meanwhile, some of you may be intrigued to understand my reasons. I...
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.