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13 Ratings 1.77 / 5
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Quick Facts
Cost 1 Month $24.95
Cheap
Popularity 84,000 active users
Low
Gender make-up More women
(2 to 1)
Better for men

CatholicMatch is a select matchmaking site for single Catholics. They have a group of around 84,000. Guests can create a picture profile, send virtual winks and see who's interested in them. If you go for a premium membership it unlocks email and advanced matches.

They claim to be endorsed by more Catholic leaders than any other.


For those Catholics passionate about their faith, CatholicMatch offers a pleasant online forum for meeting other believers, either for friendship or for marriage. This lively website is packed with features that will help you to quickly get to know other people and to become a part of the online catholic community.

Members can describe in some detail their backgrounds and beliefs on their profile.

This makes it easy for members to search for other individuals whose beliefs and opinions are compatible with their own.

Prepare to Get Personal!

Creating a profile on the site takes around 10 minutes. After creating a profile, you have the option to subscribe as a paid member of which there are a few choices.

Or you can just explore the site as a free member with "limited access". After entering your name, location, email address and a password, you'll be prompted to enter some details about your appearance, background and your social habits.

The "temperament test" offers insight into someone's personality - it also acts to filter out casual users.


For example, you'll need to answer a few questions about your political views, your smoking and drinking habits, and how often you travel. Next you'll be asked about your family background, and about your Catholic beliefs, such as your Catholic Rite, your Diocese, and which aspects of the doctrine and teaching you accept.

The questions are rather specific, though they're intended to give as complete and accurate a picture of you as possible. You won't be asked for a user name during the registration steps, this will be created for you automatically based on your first name, and a number.

Temperament Test

The site also has a feature called the "temperament test", that offers some insight into personality. In order to view someone's temperament test, you first need to complete one yourself.



Their History

CatholicMatch has been around for a very long time. This is a service that's carefully designed with the needs of Catholics in mind. Not surprisingly they are keen to point out the advantages of using a tailor made dating experience such as this versus a supermarket style of dating that you'd get on Plentyoffish or Match.com.

The good

  • Easy to use
  • Focuses just on Catholics
  • Complete, and informative profiles

The bad

  • The free account is quite restrictive and doesn't allow members to communicate
Rating from 13 customers

5 Star: (1)

4 Star: (1)

3 Star: (0)

2 Star: (4)

1 Star: (6)

Total 13 Ratings
1 Reviews
12 Comments
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    Charles314159January 21st, 2021

    Avoid

    The people who run this site are HUGE JERKS and absolutely NOT Christians, in spite of running a Catholic dating service - they clearly do not follow the teachings of Jesus. I was a paying customer for 3 years, then they permanently banned me from the site with no explanation. They told me I had violated a rule, but refused to tell me WHICH rule, no matter how many times I asked, no matter how nicely I asked. They were extremely cold to me, with no hint of humanity or concern for how they were making me feel or how they were negatively affecting my life.

    After several weeks of begging for an explanation and for mercy and reconsideration, they cited a clause in their terms of service stating that they can refuse service for any reason they feel like, or for no reason, and that they would ignore anything I said to them in the future.

    This is not the behavior of Christians - it's the behavior of a totalitarian oligarchy with no empathy for the people they have power over. I strongly recommend against using this site.
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    jodiJanuary 9th, 2019

    Below average

    i love this site, and i need a relationship soon, am a kind & lovely person
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    yehshividaSeptember 6th, 2012

    Useless

    3 Yrs ago I told CM to STOP USING MY PROFILE. They locked me out for filing a complaint with their Diocesan BISHOP. Yet are still using me as part of their bait to profit from older singles. There is NO UNSUBSCRIBE OPTION in e-mails to harass me to rejoin AND CAN'T CONTACT ADMIN WITHOUT BECOMING MEMBER.
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    J_4047October 11th, 2011

    Useless

    My recommendation is file a complaint with the BBB and Attorney General's Office.
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    J_4047August 10th, 2011

    Useless

    I was a paying customer for 2 years. I was booted off unexpectedly for what I perceive as extremely "bogus" and "false" complaints against me. The site owner would not listen to my side of the story and let me back on the site. In my opinion, it was the worst customer service experience that I have ever been a part of in my entire life. I did business with the website for 2 years, and they were EXCEPTIONALLY rude and disrespectful to me as a paying customer. When I finally talked to the owner on the phone, he was very "self-righteous" and talked down to me (again, this is the way that he treated me after giving him 2 years of business!!!!!)

    I would highly recommend NOT joining this site as I feel they "stabbed me in the back" with the way that they treated me. I am very angry about this and have voiced my opinion of the way that they have treated me to several other people. It's not right or worth it! Again, hands down the worst customer service that I have ever dealt with in my entire life!
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    Lori_3768May 12th, 2011

    Useless

    Horrible experience. Beware of joining. The forums are horrible. Angry, bitter, single people. Administration is worse. They will automatically charge your credit card when your membership is up unless you go an extra step and put the membership on manual renew. (Deceptive practice). They will allow long term members to gang up on other members. If you complain about it, they will ban YOU, not the problem members. Brian, the owner, occasionally posts in the forums and is rude and disrespectful to members. Any constructive criticism of the site is met with him acting rudely and telling you to leave the site if you aren't happy. Worst online experience of my life. The customer service is non-existent because they feel they are the biggest Catholic dating site around and it isn't necessary to satisfy customers any longer.
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    AllisonMarch 21st, 2011

    Recommended

    I was really surprised to see some of the negative comments posted here. Like the other poster said you can use the site for just about $10 a month which is much cheaper than Match.com or eHarmony, plus on those site you don't know if the person is actually Catholic or was just born Catholic. There have been times when I find more possibilities than others, when I am not finding as many Matches I just look outside of my area. I have met some great guys this way even though I have not found my spouse yet. I also love the forums and community it is a great way to get to chat with other single who want to live their faith. I am not sure if I will meet my spouse online but I am hopeful CatholicMatch will help me one way or another.
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    Dave_3508March 17th, 2011

    Below average

    If you want to use this as a dating site, my advice is to pay the **minimum** membership period, use it heavily and then bail. Being a long time user means that you are subject to running afoul of the monitors or admins or whatever they are called. They seem to think nothing of suspending or cancelling your service for trivial and arbitrary-judged "violations" of their TOS. They seem to think that they are running a grade school and that they customers are children. Don't trust them with too much of your money.
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    JayJuly 21st, 2009

    Below average

    Catholicmatch.com was a major disappointment to me. This site has extremely restrictive policies which in my opinion are very deceptive. You can only send and receive messages if you pay to get a full account. If you sign up for a free account, you can't send messages or reply to messages, so although you have a profile on there, for all essential purposes it's meaningless to full members because you can't be contacted.

    So you pay to sign up because you see lots of profiles in their area, thinking they are people you can contact. Unfortunately, once they have your money, you realize they are just free accounts and there is no way to contact them, meaning there are actually far fewer people who can be contacted than you'd originally thought. That just seems wrong to me.

    To make matters worse, I wanted to be considerate and let people know that because I signed up for a free account, I couldn't be contacted, but the site specifically says you aren't allowed to include that info in your profile! That means they know that they are tricking people and want to perpetuate it!

    Then I decided that to be fair to other people, I'd just delete my profile, but there is no way to do that on the site! They really want to perpetuate this deception any way they can. Even if it's legal, I think it's unethical.
    At least in my area, it also seems like most of the people on there aren't even that serious about their faith, disagreeing with lots of church teachings. Seriously, why bother joining a Catholic dating site if you're not that into your faith?

    At the end of the day you'd be better off just using a free dating site like okcupid.com, plentyoffish.com or even Craigslist.org, just being sure to mention that you're looking for other serious Catholics.
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    EvelynFebruary 19th, 2009

    Below average

    It cost $75 for the first 6 months to join. It is only free to sign up, but to respond and send messages you have to pay. I joined, paid, and was very dissatisfied, partly because there were not a lot of members in my area, and I realize that is not CMs fault. The forum area, which is stressed as a way to meet people, is extremely clique-ish, and as a new person it was hard to join in on thread topics. There is a high female to male ratio, and most of the guys I was matched with were older gentlemen, and that's Ok, but I had a 58-year-old man tell me he only wanted a virgin. I found out, in the forums, some of the people are married and/or in relationship, but still hang around to post in the forums, and I thought that was weird. Forum topics are good, ranging from religion to more personal things. Air in the forums is extremely conservative, and other opinions are not welcome. So if you didn't vote for McCain, you're in for a real treat. I'm not planning to renew my membership.
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    Stan_3938June 22nd, 2011

    Useless

    Replied to Evelyn @Evelyn Aside from what you stated, a lot of women are quite rude. I'm a chivalrous guy and cannot tolerate rudeness. Sad thing, when you speak out, then you're the bad guy. And it's supposed to be a Catholic site, but it's okay to support abortion or premarital sex! Go figure! Good thing I signed up for only 1 month.
CatholicMatch 1.77 13 A review of CatholicMatch. CatholicMatch is a select matchmaking site for single Catholics. They have a group of around 84,000. Guests can create a picture profile, send virtual winks and see who's interested in them.