Catholic Online Dating Advice
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Take Your Virtual Dates to the Next Level
Jun 19 2020By Patty BreenLove and online dating in the times of COVID-19 and social distancing is interesting to say the least. With people home a lot more right now, this has proven some tricky situations when it comes to going on a virtual date. One of my closest girlfrien...
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Ready to Hit Publish on Your Online Dating Profile? Read this Checklist First
Jun 18 2020By Chloe LangrHitting “publish” on your online dating profile is a big step. It shows that you’re ready to dive headfirst into the world of online dating. But before you share yourself with potential matches, check out our online dating checklist...
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What It’s Like to be a Woman on a Catholic Dating App
Jun 14 2020By Patty BreenA frequent conversation I have with my other female single friends is how weird it is to be a woman on dating apps in 2020. Even in the last ten years, dating (especially online dating!) have changed and shifted things so much. Sometimes these chang...
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How to Have a Great First Digital Date
Jun 13 2020By Chloe LangrYou met someone thanks to online dating and you’re ready for your first date with them. That’s exciting, but you’re also going on a first date in the middle of a world pandemic, which could put a damper on things. Thanks to modern t...
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How to Begin a Long-Distance Relationship
Jun 12 2020By Adrienne ThorneIn the world of Catholic online dating, sometimes it can seem like that right person who is everything you’re looking for will never come along. You have things you’re looking for on the level of simple attraction, and you’re also looki...
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Men, Here’s How to Take a Good Profile Photo
Jun 11 2020By Patty BreenMen, I would like to share some insight with you from the female perspective when it comes to taking good profile photos on online dating profiles or dating apps. First, let me share where I am coming from. Before I met my boyfriend, I was on four di...
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How to Prepare for Summer
Jun 07 2020By Theresa Zoe WilliamsMany of our schedules change when the summer months roll around. With summer weddings, vacations, and holidays, you may be traveling more this time of year, too. Catholic dating can become complicated with all of the changes that summer brings, but i...
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5 Things To Always Do on a First Date
Jun 06 2020By Patty BreenThe first date. It can be equal parts excitement and nerves. I’m sure many of us have an array of first date stories, both good and not so good. I had one man show up forty-five minutes late (yes you read that correctly!) for a date after he wa...
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What I Wish I Had Done When I Was Single
Jun 05 2020By Patty BreenI don’t know about you but in my younger years I thought I knew everything there was to know about love and relationships. I knew what I wanted and I thought I could make it happen because of my own striving. When I look back to my twenties, I̵...
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Jackie Angel’s Advice on How Catholics Should Date
Jun 04 2020By Adrienne ThorneIs there one particular way that is the right way for single Catholics to go about dating? Where can Catholics turn to find answers about healthy dating practices? It’s not like we can open up the Catechism of the Catholic Church and discover how t...
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.