CatholicMatchReviews 124

Some people have found their spouse through this service. That's because of pure luck. I haven't even gotten one interested response. Guys here are flakes. I send them a message and they don't even have the guts to at least give me a courtesy response. Thus, finding love here is impossible. When I was able to talk with some guys they ghosted me. I wasted $50 on this site and am never coming back. The people here are awful.

My account was removed despite having a 12 month subscription and when I emailed the moderators to ask why they refused to give me an answer. Legalized theft.

I live near TO and close proximity profiles were a rarity. It was obvious to me that views were not being updated. Traffic only seemed to improve when membership was expiring or had expired. Profiles can remain after membership. At that time, views increase slightly as well as attempted connections. Don't be fooled! Overall, very disappointing.

I put work into my profile. Every question I answered honestly. I put out personal stuff. I was offered a six month subscription on a discount. After I paid my money, it was great until today, my account came up as suspended. I reported that issue to customer service at *******@catholicmatch.com and I got no reply. My last email to them pretty much was an ultimatum to either contact me or I end my account. I can't help but think this site is a scam. What legit dating sites are there?

Catholic Match is a "dead" website. The only ones on here are scammers with fake profiles. Stay away!

I purchased an annual membership, used it for less than a month and requested a refund. I contacted customer service and they said they would switch my membership to a monthly one and give me the difference of one month only which makes no sense. Most men here are NOT practicing Catholics, you realize that when you start talking and they come up with rude, and disrespectful comments. Lastly, their conversations do not even match their profiles. Do not waste your time and money, save yourself the disappointment.

It's a waste of time and money. Something is wrong with that site. It doesn't work. No one sends likes. You like and no response received. Not even a courtesy response. Shame on the owners for taking people's money and using the words "Catholic Match" to gain someone's trust. Don't trust them.

I gave them no stars. The only two people who wanted to talk to me were the scammers. I am interested in men and they sent me both women and men.
The men on here are out of touch with reality. I am 53 and in menopause. I am not having any children.
I complained about it and they said they will fix it. They did not.
I paid for a year subscription and no refund was offered.
Please do not go onto this site. It is very dangerous.

I joined Catholic Match in 2020 while the pandemic was its strongest. I wanted to be open to meet the person God had created for me. Honestly, I had always doubted that any online dating could ever turn serious. However, due to the circumstances it was all I had to meet the right person. I did their free trial and after two weeks or so I met my husband. He had actually joined in three weeks earlier than I. We both had met several people there before we met each other. What was very helpful for us is that Catholic Match offers a temperament test that matches one with compatible partners. It also narrows down hard chore Catholic questions that definitely help one determine our religious compatibility. Furthermore, it allowed me to know quite a bit about his interests, food preferences, biography, and what he was looking for in a woman. After three months of getting to know each other over texting and the phone, we decided to have our first date. We went to Mass together, then lunch, and after headed to the park for a walk. It was such a wonderful first date. We were both very nervous and smiley. I really liked him. A month later we decided to initiate a more exclusive dating relationship. From the beginning we both had a clear understanding that God wanted us to be married, our discernment actually consisted in learning if God intended for us to be married to each other or if there was someone else for us. I had an amazing time getting to know him at a deeper level. It was really awesome to notice the things we both had in common. We had both previously discern religious life and had left for missionary work for some years, we were both seeking a Christ centered relationship, chaste and embracing of all of our Catholic doctrine. We were both seeking to grow in holiness with who ever God had called us to be married to and that was and continues to be a strong motivator for us both. Especially when we become aware of the areas in our lives that we need to seek Gods grace for in conversion. We received the blessing of our engagement on May 15,2020 and got married on January 22,2021. We are now expecting our first baby girl. We have both been happily married and I must thank Catholic Match for helping me find the love of my life. Thank you Catholic Match.

I was a member on this site during the time I lived in Phoenix. The site was a bit cheap looking, but the profiles written by most of the males had some thought, some wanted baby-makers. I placed a profile without a pic, and left it there for sometime, when I retired (early) I focused more and corresponded with a man. We met and he looked familiar, in a way that I had seen his face years ago. He kept talking about his life, the conversation went all over the place, he had a very important "jug of milk" to pick up for his daughter. This task took up a lot of texting and a very long trip to the bathroom, I was about to leave, he showed back up and wanted to see me again. That never happened. I knew his face and he had a certain mannerism that created flashbacks of a difficult time in my community, a Canadian military town. He had all this belief in God and said "God wanted us to meet", so unsure if he knew me first. He had been Marine I briefly met in the mid 1990s after returning home from Louisiana and was just as impulsive with making swift incorrect judgements. The hair was no longer dark brown, lightened by the sun, but the face was the same, it took me too long and too late to remember it was the same man. If he remembered who I was, he never mentioned it and certainly had the access to know where I had been the last 20 some years. A couple of his "brothers" followed me out of a parking lot in a restaurant, and hey, I sure appreciated the low flying Phoenix Firebird flying low over my roof as it would scare off any prowlers in the area. At the same time it was cruel and undeserving, but cops don't care, you are judged based on your zip code was a saying I had heard. I sold my home and haven't been back to Phoenix until I am ready to be there. The next part of my life I would not wish on my worst enemy, and I never thought a dating website would make me loose faith in my faith for a very long time. I went home, put those private islands up for sale as I never met anyone who shared the same interests, only wanting to take advantage. Presently, I can say, God is real, despite all events. I put out what I wanted in a partner and He sent me back a fella from that stupid bar in Petawawa, who had lived a life too. I still wonder if that was the lesson for me, as it has changed the way I care for military, 1st responders, police and heal myself. It certainly was no happily ever after Hollywood movie, God gave him 2 chances and he walked away both times with the same familiar impulse and tipping up a beer. When my time comes, I am hoping to bust out of purgatory a little sooner after this helluva ride. I figure God had to make it real difficult to make me stronger these tumultuous times. So give it a whirl, you might actually meet the person you are supposed to meet, or write a Hallmark, Lifetime movie with a brighter ending!

2x my account was suspended. Their reasoning is that my photo looks too young. I LOOK younger. So what? They consistently messaged me asking for personal information. When I gave it to them they asked for more. I'm not giving my social/DL etc. to these people. I had also heard a man had the same issues. He paid for an account and then they suspended him! I'm a devout Catholic, checks all the boxes. I'm someone they WANT on their site. They are super controlling. There is no privacy. One user was talking to me and said how bad it was and how they monitor the messages so he didn't want to say too much. He said the women he's met are not even practicing and not looking for marriage. Their profiles said otherwise. This is the 2nd time they suspended me. Amazing. The lack of professionalism and controlling your every message is ridiculous. Any message I sent or was sent to me was very very respectful and just getting to know people. There was no reason for all the censorship. At this point I have to assume there are women controlling the site and they suspend any attractive, successful competition. That is no way to run a business. I tried to contact someone of authority to look into this matter but it seems impossible. I only end up with "Genevieve" who has made it very clear she has not intention of reinstating me regardless of all the hoops she asked me to jump including personal information. I would love to see what she looks like. I have an idea.

This site is a scam. They have attractive trolls or use their pics to like ur profile to keep u interested

Several deficiencies: the questions of beliefs specifically contraception. To this question, most people say yes, but the core of the matter is not the belief, but the practice. Contraception is widely practiced by Catholics who look for all kinds of excuses for their past acceptance. Contraception is more than pills, it is also all forms of sterilization. The use or not use of contraception in the past life of a person is the main indicator of character. So I recommend that initially focus on asking any candidate about this. Second, by looking at the photos the majority of men are unkempt, probably because hygiene problems very unattractive, and unappealing. I am learning the art of catholic dating: be frank do not date anyone that has ever used contraception, that eliminates the weeds, go after the real flowers. Male or female
Another problem is that one's photos appear to everyone in any state, and so there are people unrealistic liking you even though they live a hundred miles away. All of this does not make this site too different from a secular dating site, if you want to meet the more traditional Catholics a better option is, Ave Maria Singles.

They encourage you to look around, and scout the website and even send a message or a smile. Unfortunately, what they don't tell you is that unless the other person pays for a subscription, they can't respond to your message. They also claim that to protect you from "vulnerability" you cannot have any way to contact you off site in your profile, when we all know that it is just an attempt to keep you on the site endlessly searching and paying the subscription. They don't want you to find someone, they want your money.

On October 30,2021, paid $60 for a Premium 6 month subscription. Wrote a compelling profile. Ran the profile for 6 months with the following results.

-99 individuals contacts via message to members within acceptable radius. 61 (61% messages never read by the intended), 38 (38% read), 24 (24% who read responded, mostly to say 'Thanks'.), 99 (100% of individual contacts remain total strangers).

-52 CM 'matches' were generated and sent to this subscriber. 9 (17% were declined as too distant traveling), 42 (81% accepted and contacted), 1 (< 2% read personalized matching message), while 40 (98% never read this message), 52 (100% of 'matches' remain strangers still).

-2 CM 'mutual matches'. 100% unread mutual matching personalized messages and both strangers still.

-3 Unsolicited Messages from members browsing this profile. Answered 3 (100%). 3 (100% resulted in public-place meeting, and/or a shared dining experiences; resulting in 2 friendships.)

Summary: Will not re-subscribe after April 30th. CM matching algorithm antiquated and utterly futile; as algorithm links 'long gone, moved-on or inactive' profiles to this-once highly-motivated an active member! Vast majority of female-profiles are extremely dated/stale if not outright fake; resulting in high percentage of unread messages. Letter sent to CM asking to add 'activity notice' to better focus my efforts here. CM refuses to note 'last active' for "privacy concerns". Merger with yet another catholic dating site will add even more 'dead wood'; further skewing already Poor statistics to Poorer still. This is all in my humble opinion, however the statistics do not lie.

I've tried CatholicMatch out of inquisitiveness. I was trying to find a Christian woman. But CatholicMatch was not helpful at all. They make it look like their pool of women is very large and the overwhelming majority of them are family-oriented, serious and very beautiful ladies with the heart of gold. But it is not true at all! They pretend to be Christians but in fact they try to rob you at every opportunity. This site is full of fake profiles. Bots are used to send you template letters and to keep you interested. Also there are quite many scammers from all over the world who pretend to be living in your city.

This website is a joke for several reasons especially if you're a guy.

1) Strange paywall settings where you have no idea if the person read your message or is even active.

2) Small number of active members even in large metro areas.

3) If you think you're going to get way from inflated egos and arrogant females think again. I'd sometimes message average looking women if they seemed nice to give them a chance. Many times no response or just one sentence responses. These women are delusional. I am tall, make 135k a year as a single man, am in shape, go to mass every Sunday, in addition to praying daily. In real life I get much better quality but tried the site for a month. I'm going back to real life.

4) So many fake or woke Catholics who believe in abortion, wokism, etc. Get the heck out here, why are you even in the religion?

5) If you want even MORE evidence go and read the forums. You will see men amd women who have been members for years sometimes even more than a DECADE continuing to post. If it worked that wouldn't be the case.

To all Catholics DO NOT give this site a penny. Talk to your priest and look for a match within your pariah.

Owners of this site should be ashamed of themselves.

First everything is fine but then they bother you a lot with promotions, they even call you on the phone if you don't do what they want, they ignore you and there is no activity on your account.