For Unmarried Catholics Adults

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Just thought anyone reading this thread might be interested as an aside, that the author of that piece is now married and recently adopted a baby boy.
 
The article is a bit confusing. It seems she is not talking about “unmarried Catholics” or “single Catholics” generally, but rather single, never-been-married Catholics, whom she further seems to assume are young (talking about a “nice Catholic girl or boy” etc).

If we’re just going to talk about the general category of “unmarried Catholics”, there are also a huge amount of such people who are older, and/or widowed, and/or divorced and in some cases annulled or seeking annulment. Furthermore, these people have “family life” situations all over the map. Some such people have little or no family and others might have 4 kids and 10 grandkids and some siblings still living.

It’s important that we don’t just think of “unmarried Catholics” as young or middle-aged singles who never got married, and also that we don’t assume all of them have problems with financial instability or all that rot. There are many, many different types of “unmarried Catholics”.
 
I don’t think I’m a good candidate to compose a blog. Right now, I’m okay with being single and I’m not really looking for support or social activities at church beyond what they already have. I really loved my husband, we were together a long time, he hasn’t even been dead a year, and I don’t want to have to adapt my lifestyle to a new person on top of all the other stuff I’m dealing with. I do have friends here and there I can socialize with in different ways, though most are not Catholic. If I want to be around Catholics, I can go places like daily Mass, special event Masses and prayer services (a lot of them have fellowship time with refreshments after), weekly prayer group meetings, activities like Right to Life marches or pilgrimages, or I can just chat with Catholics on social media like this board or a little bit on Facebook.

This is all fine for me, but doesn’t really address the issue of a person who is really lonely for a partner, and I’m sure these people exist, especially if they weren’t lucky enough to have a long, good marriage already.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
The article is a bit confusing. It seems she is not talking about “unmarried Catholics” or “single Catholics” generally, but rather single, never-been-married Catholics, whom she further seems to assume are young (talking about a “nice Catholic girl or boy” etc).

If we’re just going to talk about the general category of “unmarried Catholics”, there are also a huge amount of such people who are older, and/or widowed, and/or divorced and in some cases annulled or seeking annulment. Furthermore, these people have “family life” situations all over the map. Some such people have little or no family and others might have 4 kids and 10 grandkids and some siblings still living.

It’s important that we don’t just think of “unmarried Catholics” as young or middle-aged singles who never got married, and also that we don’t assume all of them have problems with financial instability or all that rot. There are many, many different types of “unmarried Catholics”.
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Agreed. One must realize that the “forty year old virgin” demographic may not have much in common with someone who is divorced or who has children from previous sinful cohabitation.
 
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