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CatholicMatch

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CatholicMatch Reviews Summary

CatholicMatch has a rating of 1.6 stars from 124 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with CatholicMatch most frequently mention fake profiles, month subscription and customer service. CatholicMatch ranks 10th among Religious Dating sites.

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28
value
30
shipping
11
returns
12
quality
25
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Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Don't waste your money
January 23, 2022

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.

Date of experience: January 22, 2022
Florida
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Guess what? This guy that i met here we were exchanging message in this site until we decided to talk by phone. Then we decided to meet but then the night before we meet he ghosted me by not answering my call. His profile was gone but ones i click where we exchanged our messages before in the site, He's profile is still there. So I'm just wondering if this guy whom i talked to is one of the employees of Catholic match. Seems weird. This is not a good dating site. It's questionable.

Date of experience: January 13, 2022
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The vast majority of "users" were sleeping members ie their subscriptions had run out years ago or they never joined in the first place. The rest were scammers and there are A LOT of scammers on this site.
I was lured back onto this site by a cheap offer and repeated notifications about a "message" from someone "local", who turned out to be a scammer. There was a change to Terms and Conditions mid-contract and the forums are now so heavily censored; the only conversations to be had are the sort one had at the age of 14. I understand 85% of users are from the US, with only 15% from the rest of the world. This means there are very few users in individual countries outside the US. Sadly customers tend to be treated with disrespect which makes for an uncomfortable user experience. With 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide, the market would prove lucrative to new competitors.

Date of experience: January 3, 2022
Germany
3 reviews
67 helpful votes
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They have lost touch with reality. They don't even try to attract genuine women. They just don't need them because they are overfilled with good-looking fakes and that's enough for them to fool gullible men. I would say at least 95% of fakes and catfishers. I unsubscribed from CatholicMatch as soon as I found out how many fake profiles they had. But I still wasted about 300 euro.
So if you want to know my opinion about CatholicMatch - it's total and utter drivel if you've ever been on a legit decent dating site. CatholicMatch is a time-waster. Its name is very misleading. They are trying to exploit Christians.

Date of experience: December 28, 2021
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scam
October 22, 2021

Fake profiles that never respond nor even "veiw me" when I send a pm. Just a scheme to keep you in suspense and to keep your subscription.

Date of experience: October 22, 2021
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I met no sincere or knowledgable catholics. No one answers emails and I had a very hard time getting my profile removed.

Date of experience: October 5, 2021
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not suitable website.
September 25, 2021

This website is not suitable for teenagers the people on this site are bogus ever since when I was 15 years old they never have good people on this website.

Date of experience: September 24, 2021
New York
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Horrible site.
September 24, 2021

Don't waste your time or money. Administration is asleep at the wheel - annoying emails that can't be turned off. This site is a dead cat.

Date of experience: September 23, 2021
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The site has been taken over by liberl, middle-aged, school-marmy fat women. They should have become nuns, but I guess that's no longer an option.

Date of experience: September 15, 2021
Florida
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Scam and Censor
September 9, 2021

As a practicing Catholic, I would rate it as bad to terrible. Will leave and try others.
1. Lots of Scammers. Many profiles are inactive, not real or someone trying to scam you. A lot of premium (paying) Members complain about this inside.
2. Moderators allow personal attacks and leave racist comments, meanwhile if you as a reply write against current political left pet policies (i. E. teaching CRT), your comments will be erased. Worse censoring than other media in my experience. The Moderators themselves don't understand the rules, one even posted possible interpretations of them, so they apply to what they agree. Keep in mind the sort of person that would be in this job screening.
3. The site apparently has a contract with its users whereby they can see any and all your communications. Their contract establishes arbitration in Pennsylvania and these guys seem comfortable that no one is going to sue them for the stuff that goes on inside there.

Date of experience: September 9, 2021
South Carolina
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Bunch of scams
August 23, 2021

When every other person you are "matched" with has the same history ~ job, background, status, you know something is fishy. I feel really bad for the people who are "real" on the site, b/c the scammers are giving it a bad reputation.

My Advice: don't sign up!

Date of experience: August 23, 2021
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DO NOT USE THIS SITE
August 18, 2021

Catholic Match pertain to be a wholesome, catholic dating website, boosted by their favourable articles (written by their in-house staff no less) and forums (used by the same regular faces who don't actually seem to get any dates). There is something incredibly insidious about this site and it masquerading as a catholic one makes it all the more vile and dangerous.

It took me a while to discern what their scam was - but it is actually in plain sight. There is no differentiation between the premium members (ones who have actually paid a subscription) and members who use it freely (ones who can peruse profiles and 'like' them but can't actually message and read messages). If you're freely using the site, you shouldn't be bothered by the lack of benefits since you're naturally not paying for them. However, as a paid member, there is no way of telling who on this site is a premium member or not and thus, you could spend ages messaging people who can't actually read your messages!

This is where CatholicMatch's scam comes in - they won't allow you to be honest in your profile and tell other users that you can't read their messages. They reel you into their site, knowing that many of their users can't actually message or read messages. You're going to fork out a lot of money for a useless, dishonest site.

It's utterly disgusting that the site claims so much holiness when it restrains honesty.

Don't use it. Trust in God to bring your partner in a more natural way, not through the hands of man and certainly not through the hands of CatholicMatch.

Date of experience: August 18, 2021
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My wife and I met 10 1/2 years ago on Catholic Match. We both agree it was the most amazing thing that has happened in our life. Her photos were fuzzy, but we messaged back and forth for some time. I truly believe God had our happiness in mind. She was everything I asked for times 100. I will forever be in debt to Catholic Match. Unfortunately, you need to skim through the people that are untruthful to find the precious gem God has in store for you. GOOD LUCK to all of you.

Date of experience: August 6, 2021
California
2 reviews
24 helpful votes
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No quality
July 7, 2021

I've been a subscriber for years and during that time I only met one quality woman, however it didn't work out. Even then however, I got lucky because she was a diamond in the rough. The quality of women on this site is not good at all. The only people who seemed to be even looking at my profile were from outside the US. Also, truth be told, 99% of the women on the site are not attractive at all. They're not even cute. Stay away from the site

Date of experience: July 7, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scammers.!
July 5, 2021

I paid for a full year and I am not able to send or receive any messages at all, I contacted them threw email and they have been giving me the round around even after I send a screen shot of my payment I asked for a refund and I have NOT HEARD FROM THEM AT ALL! Do NOT pay for this site!

Date of experience: July 5, 2021
Georgia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I'm of the opinion that #catholicmatch.com has more scammers than legit members. I watched new scammers join every day. And when I question one person in the forums, because it was clear to me he was a scammer, the so-called moderator tried to publicly humiliate me for having done that. And then they prevented me from posting. BECAUSE I WAS PROTECTING LEGIT MEMBERS. Catholicmatch.com is junk. And it is my understanding that the owners of that LLC are not Catholic. It's simply a business for them. Guess what? Scammers pay. They're going to keep paying scammers around no matter what harm is done.

Date of experience: June 26, 2021
Washington
2 reviews
15 helpful votes
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Sucks
June 23, 2021

Signed up for an annual plan and wanted to quit after just a month and change. Asked for a refund and they said no. No one really responds and the pool of people is quite low. Some people are also downright rude or arrogant - no better than a free subscription to OkCupid. Outside of outwardly displaying your Catholicisim, nothing really Catholic about this site.

Date of experience: June 23, 2021
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rubbish site
April 27, 2021

This site os full of men who are looking for a female species to propagate their seed or dirty old men looking for a grand-daughter figure. Plus the site does not even have a function to get rid of unwanted mail or profiles into a junk box.

Date of experience: April 27, 2021
California
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Cliquey, toxic, psychotic. What would seem most odd to a traditional Catholic using CM is that the site promotes itself as 'Catholic.' Yet the site allows users to openly claim that they are down for some pre-marital sex and disagree with the Church's stance on abortion. Makes one wonder how many abortions CM has facilitated - for profit - since its beginning...

Date of experience: December 21, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Typical dating site
December 20, 2020

After viewing an ad in my church's bulletin, I decided to give CatholicMatch a try. I wrote a complete profile that I thought demonstrated my devotion to Catholic practices. My few 'matches' Had little in common with me, the opposite of what I entered in my search parameters. Short, overweight women were not what I was looking for, as I keep fit as possible through my diet and exercise.

Date of experience: December 20, 2020

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CatholicMatch.com is the best place for Catholic singles to meet online. Find single Catholic men and single Catholic women in our community for Catholic dating, Catholic friendship and Catholic marriage.


catholicmatch.com
Founded in 1999
Zelienople, PA, United States