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Catholic Match
Find other Catholic singles at Catholicmatch.com, a dating and personals site especially created for single Catholic men and women. Meet other believers at one of the most popular Catholic matchmaking sites around. Standard membership is free.
Number of Members
The estimated number of active members using this site.
: 72,000
Cost
The cost of joining the site as a basic member, for the shortest subscription period. Discounts may be offered for signing up for longer periods.
: $24.95 a month
Regions Covered: United States
Online Since: 2001
Category : Catholic
URL : catholicmatch.com
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- Packed with great features
- Interesting forums
- Informative profiles
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- Free members can’t communicate
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by Jay
July 21st, 2009 at 09:16 PM
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July 21st, 2009 at 09:16 PM
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 ...
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Catholic Match
For those Catholics passionate about their faith, Catholic Match 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.
Creating a profile on the site takes around 10 minutes. After creating a profile, you have the option to subscribe as a paid member, or to 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. 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.
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.
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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.
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.