*********Update 09/29/2019******

My original review was written below in December 2017. I have come back to update this review to point out changes on the CM website. I am discerning some of these CM website changes are due to my very own review and I will explain why.
Some things have been brought to my attention by my brother who is currently and has been a CM member for a few years.
I was informed by my brother and it was revealed by him that Catholicmatch removed every members "favorite" section and the "online now" feature... along with the information of how recently member logged in such as..."active in 24 hours... or..."active in 1 week," etc.

SO!... CATHOLICMATCH pretty much removed ALL features that I mentioned in my original review below where I explained how to use these features to spot and recognize FAKE profiles. A CATHOLICMATCH employee probably read THIS review and suggested they make it harder for people with a profile of good intentions to spot a fake profile!

ALSO! My brother noticed that fake profiles have contradictory information on their profiles. For example, my brother showed me one particular profile of a 26 year old blond female from Leander, TX. In her profile introduction, she clearly states she has 5 children and is a teacher. She later says her children are all grown... Yet she is 26 years of age! Also, in another part of her profile she put she is between jobs and will begin a receptionist job... yet she stated earlier she was a teacher. In another section of her profile, she put she has no children... um. Yeah miss 26 year old... what happened to your 5 grown up children?

Anyway, these changes on the CM website keep my review 1 star. CM needs to start charging a higher priced membership fee right from the beginning and do away with any type of free membership so fake profiles would disappear.

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Original review:

I am currently a member on there with a status of in a relationship. A while back, I connected with a former CM member through Facebook after Catholicmatch removed his profile just because he asked me through catholicmatchs messaging system if I had a Skype account. Catholicmatch did not want me to exchange personal contacf info with him so they removed and terminated his CM account. You see, if I would have exchanged personal contact info with him, Catholicmatch may have not seen another paid membership ever again by me... so that is why CM stopped him from communicating with me any further. Okay, so I decided to look for this guy on Facebook and I found him just by typing in his first name and the the city and state he lived in. I found him and we connected and are dating because of CM, but honestly because of Facebook. If we become a success story and get married, I am not going to include Catholcmatch in it because Catholicmatch will probably change the story...

Okay, so my biggest annoyance with Catholicmatch is and has always been their dishonest practices to get people to pay for a membership or what is called a Catholicmatch subscription. Catholicmatch's method is plain deceiving and based on a lie and based on FAKE intentions. People, FAKE profiles is one way of how Catholicmatch deceives people. Almost everyday, you will find at least a few fake profiles created in the "new member" section. By the way, new fake profiles are often created on Friday and Saturday nights.

The common themes, elements and signs of a fake profile are...

1. The single picture or very few pictures( like 2 or 3 or 4 pictures) are of the person by themselves in the picture and the person is usually VERY attractive and is celebrity like looking but not a celebrity. They are considered to be HOT looking. They profile usually gets a lot of "photo likes " in one day. Sometimes the one single photo of this "fake profile" attractive person is with sunglasses on. More of them are NOT wearing sunglasses though. The fake profile never has photos of the fake member with other people in the picture such as family or friends.

2. Another common theme of fake profiles is that the "my introduction" section of the profile is the ONLY thing filled out and it is written very generally. No other sections are filled out... for example, the sections such as "My ideal match" or "My Faith", etc. are never filled out. Alot of these fake profiles have the same writing tone and same writing style, very vague, boring similar introductions that all come across as the same type of personality. ONE frequent word used by these fake profiles is the word PASSIONATE. In the "my introduction" section, they use the word passionate... alot. For example, "I am passionate about..." OR " I am most passionate about..." are common sentences used by fake profiles.

3. Do yourself a big favor and save any suspected fake profiles from the "new members" section to your "favorites" section. Everytime you login to your Catholicmatch account, take a look at your favorites section. Click on " last active" and you will notice these new member fake profiles are hardly ever logged into Catholicmatch. You will hardly find them "online now". In fact, they are the least active on the site. That is obviously weird and odd considering thatusually, newly signed up members( whether they are free or paid membership) are usually very active on Catholic match. Again, new, but FAKE profiles are hardly "online now" and only login every now and then.

4. The fake profiles usually choose "self employed" for their employment and they are hardly ever 7/7 on the teachings of the church. Some are 7/7 though.

These fake profiles of very attractive people are just one method Catholicmatch uses to distract the real honest members from actually interacting with a real honest profile that is truly looking for a marriage partner. In other words, the fake very attractive profiles showing up on the homepage after you login to CM is done in order to get CM free and subscribed members to think that these are truly Catholics searching for a Catholic, when in reality they are not. These new member fake profiles also are used to distract members away from interacting with real, honest CM members actually looking for a spouse. These fake profiles are just decoys to manipulate the CM dating site for various reasons. Another action of fake profiles that CM integrates is is that fake profiles will routinely view OR view and emotigram CM members who have free memberships(not sunscribed) OR a CM paid subscriber whose subscription is near expiring. These fake profiles do this to manipulate free/unsubscribed members to consider paying for a CM membership. Once the free member signs up for a paid membership and becomes a CM subscriber, the fake profile will no longer communicate with the real member.

A very unethical, deceiving, dishonest practice for a Catholic website to do. I will pray spiritual warfare prayers for this website to be forced to stop their deceiving dishonest practices of getting more paid members. I pray their deceivement and lies will become exposed. God will answer the prayers of the one who is speaking the truth and who is exposing the unfruitful deeds. The catholicmatch.com
Deception is not a good deed and based on lies.
That cannot produce good fruit. We all know that such deception is from Satan and not at all Catholic. So join me in regularly praying for the website catholicmatch.com, pray for its founder and all the employees. I pray for all the true honest CM members not to be fooled and not to fall for any fake profiles that are a lie and that is not God's will. I pray that the deception by catholicmatch is put to a stop and their practices will somehow be exposed to all the true and honest CM members. The biggest spiritual battle is Satan causing less sacramental marriages and attacks on the family and Catholicmatch only cares about lengthy paid memberships for profit... so catholicmatch.com is similar to the freemasons infiltration of the vatican. St. Michael defend the single, unmarried Catholics
In battle.

Send me a message if you are a member or former member agreeing with me. In addition to what I wrote, I have a more personal story to prove a fake member interacted with me.

For the record, I have taken screenshots of my review and will write a blog about this.

It would be nice if CatholicMatch were like J-Date--a good and fun way to bring people of the same faith together. Instead, the site is fosters divisive attitudes among Catholics and condones racist, intolerant, and misogynistic behavior.

The problem, in part, is made evident when you first join: you are made to fill out a highly personal questionnairethat is made publicabout which Church "teachings" you accept and which ones you do not. You must answer yes or no to The Most Important Catholic Questions Ever of premarital sex, abortion, contraception, papal infallibility, and holy orders. I'm a very devout Catholic who generally has no problem with most of the Churchs positions, but I firmly believe that forcing people answer "yes" or "no" to these questions is counterproductive for a dating site. First of all, these matters are often private--things best left to private discussions with a priest or other religious authority. Second of all, these questions are often more complex than a simple yes or no questionnaire allows (and contrary to CM belief, these questions are not self-evident dogma; they are constantly up for debate within the church itself).

Third, and most importantly, by forcing people to divulge how they stand on personal issues, the site fosters intolerance among its members and sets up an us vs. them mentality. Youre either a good Catholic or a bad, flawed Catholic. In the forums, you regularly see people refer to other site members as a "5/7"--shorthand for a bad Catholic, or a member who doesn't agree with the church's teachings on premarital sex or birth control. (It rarely occurs to anyone that someone could be a "5/7" by disagreeing with the church's stance on not allowing priests to marry or papal infallibility--no, a "5/7" is always shorthand for a member who is promiscuous.) It's sad that a Catholic site promotes such judgmental attitudes on the part of its members.

Predictably, this religious "litmus test" scares away people who are more moderate and less dogmatic in their beliefs. I have friends who were so turned off by having to divulge their beliefs about birth control or gays that they decided to boycott the site altogether. I have another friend who, having ticked "no" to the papal infallibility question, received a long, strident piece of hate mail from a member who called her "unfit for the faith" and "living in a state of mortal sin." All because she doesn't believe the pope is infallible!

I'm sure that many Catholics would read this review and tell me that only good Catholics need apply and cafeteria Catholics aren't welcome. Well, whatever. CM still allows divorced members to join--because they bring in money, I assume. Yet no one raises an eyebrow at this. They're too busy bashing members who ticked "no" on birth control or something.

Since moderate Catholics are scared away, CM is an echo chamber for people who hold far-right political views and spout intolerant ideology. Basically, it can be a scary place if you're not an ultra-conservative white Roman Catholic male who secretly fantasizes about instituting the Catholic version of Sharia law. In the past few months, I've seen the following things take place in the message boards and at the Institute:

*One man mocked women who use birth control for medical disorders, implying that they are whores who use endometriosis as an excuse;
*One man said that women who get breast cancer deserve it, because breast cancer is caused by delaying childbearing and/or using birth control pills;
*Two men, on different occasions, said that narcissistic unmarried Catholic women will be at fault when ISIS takes over, because womens refusal to have a lot of children is enabling Muslim countries to "outbreed" us;
*One non-Catholic person, who was on the site trying to figure out if she wanted to become Catholic, admitted that she didn't quite agree with the church's stance on birth control, and she was harassed out of the forums and ended up leaving the site (she wasn't even Catholic yet!);
*Several men have voiced concerns that women on the site are "too educated" and therefore not open to God's plans for women (because apparently God doesn't want women to be educated);
*Men and women alike consistently blame feminism for why they aren't married yet and pine for the days when women didnt work or college or "take jobs away" from men;
*People continually make racist comments about Obama and misogynistic comments about Hillary Clintons physical appearance;
*Some members have used very egregious hate speech against Muslims, which almost always goes undeleted/ignored by administrators;
*One young man admitted to having violent impulses toward women and wrote that when he sees a young woman wearing skimpy clothes, he wants to punish her. More disturbingly, an older woman in the forum offered right then and there to introduce him to her daughter, saying that hes the sort of upstanding guy she wants as a son-in-law. (!)

I understand that there are many racists and misogynists in the world, Catholic and not Catholic, and that the internet gives them safe cover to say whatever they want. What truly bothers me is that CatholicMatch tolerates this behavior. As a Catholic site, it should make it a priority to ban hate speech and other dehumanizing sentiments. Im sorry, but its not ever appropriate to say that a woman deserves breast cancer because she didnt have children early enough, or because she used birth control pills. Its not acceptable to express violent thoughts toward women who wear skimpy clothes, or Muslims, or gays. Its really shameful and embarrassing. Its embarrassing that this site exists, and Im sorry I ever saw any of this stuff.