Single Catholics

Well worth a bump. RCC remains very lacking in this regard, IMO.

A bishop here in austria has initiazed a catholic dating website.
but there are not so many Singles on it.
i used to be registered but quit. It isnt for free... and it gets too expansive if you hanf out there for longer.

That's nice but it isn't simpyl about "catholic dating" - in fact that gets to one of the points made in the article. RCC's main interest in single Catholics is getting them married off.

in Austria the charismatic Catholic renewal became quite big in the last few years- especially in the east part of it with thousands of young members (although I live In the west).
so I think it would be possible to find a Catholic woman for me.
But somehow their gatherings are too big (if been sometimes on their festivals at Pentecost and at the feast Christ the king in November)
I'm also not sure if God doesn't call me into the monastery. I have often thought about it but haven't really made my mind up so far.

That's great, but the idea that this would ever, ever, ever reach a church I was attending it so minimal that it doesn't bring me slightest bit of hope. Not to mention that you're still being singled out for, well, being single.

The truth is, our society is primarily made up of families and so is the church. So that's who is catered to.

The rest of us? Meh.

I do find it easier to talk to single Christian girls in Protestant Churches, but our Catholic Church has solved the dilemma of the blog article by having a "student group" in the central city. The group is in English. What I feel is a problem, besides that the girls there don't talk to me, is that almost all of the participants stay in the City only one or a few semesters for studies, taking advantage of that Swedish tax-payers are paying the uni:

wondrousgnat said:

I always though if I wanted to marry the right girl I should find her in church. But there were very few, if any, single women my age in church.

For a while I was a member of a Protestant church myself and there were a lot of singles there and about half of them were ex-Catholics.

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Regarding what I quote from the blog article, I do think it's great to afford a car because of not having to spend money on kids. The car I will buy will have a top-speed of 20 MPH:

Single can be good. It can be very, very good. Not in a “we can afford a nicer car because we don’t have to spend money on kids” kind of way. More of a “This isn’t the way I had planned things, and I need to turn to You, O Lord, in a very profound and personal way in order to deal with it” kind of a way.

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I think the Church focuses on married couples and families because this is viewed as the state man is supposed to be in.
Probably citing Adam and Eve.

What I believe to be the state man is supposed to be in, is not to be fighting, neither as couples nor between countries. And just like countries manage being independent for some time, people can too:

Genersis said:

I think the Church focuses on married couples and families because this is viewed as the state man is supposed to be in.

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I'm pretty sure Adam and Eve - assuming they even literally existed - weren't married.

bill5 said:

I'm pretty sure Adam and Eve - assuming they even literally existed - weren't married.

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you do not have to assume that they existed, the Church tells us that Adam and Eve were real people

Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis 1950

For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.

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Pope Pius XII was one pope, and he did not speak ex cathedra.

In the six decades since that document, the Catholic Church has accepted the use of historical-critical tools to understand the Scriptures, which are, among other things, historical documents.

The 1993 instruction of the Pontifical Biblical Commission on ‘The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church’ calls the historical-critical method ‘essential’ and rejects explicitly a fundamentalist reading of Scripture.”

When such an approach is applied to the Bible, Catholic scholars, along with mainstream Protestant scholars, see in the primal stories of Genesis not literal history but symbolic, metaphoric stories which express basic truths about the human condition and humans. The unity of the human race (and all of creation for that matter) derives theologically from the fact that all things and people are created in Christ and for Christ. Christology is at the center, not biology.”

The Catholic Review > Work > Catholic Church has evolving answer on reality of Adam and Eve

And regardless, they still weren't married.