Catholic News Agency reports (December 13, 2025) on a new matchmaking program titled “The Catholic Dating Show” launched by the CatholicMatch platform. The spectacle features one woman interrogating three camera-shrouded male contestants before audience polls determine which pair proceeds to compatibility games. Tony Tibbetts, the show’s host and “live events manager,” boasts of 600+ live viewers per episode, framing this as a solution to the “loneliness epidemic” among singles. The platform’s “Relate” extension promises trivia nights and speaker discussions alongside dating content, with Tibbetts claiming this creates “joyful lives for Catholics” while facilitating marriages.
Profanation of Sacramental Courtship Through Theatrical Exhibitionism
The program reduces the sensus fidei (sense of faith) to audience polls, outsourcing spiritual discernment to anonymous internet voters. Pius XI condemned such naturalistic distortions in Casti Connubii (1930):
“[Marriage] is not a human invention left to man’s arbitrary will… but divinely instituted.”
By transforming courtship into public entertainment, CatholicMatch mocks the sacrum commercium (sacred exchange) of sacramental preparation. The show’s format – hiding suitors’ appearances while amplifying superficial interrogation – perversely inverts traditional courtship’s emphasis on virtus (virtue) over physical attraction.
Tibbetts’ complaint about “lack of vulnerability” among singles exposes the operation’s modernist core. True Catholic formation cultivates pudicitia (holy modesty), not the forced emotional exposure demanded by this Protestant-derived “authenticity” cult. The Catechism of St. Pius X emphasizes modesty as “custody of the senses” to avoid occasions of sin – a principle obliterated when intimate discernment becomes livestreamed content.
Neo-Church’s Systematic Demolition of Marriage Doctrine
This spectacle embodies the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae (Leo XIII, 1880), which declares marriage “not of human device, but ordained by God’s authority.” The show’s reduction of holy matrimony to compatibility games and audience approval constitutes practical heresy against the sacrament’s indelible character. Not one reference exists to:
- Parental involvement in courtship (Canon 1031 §2, 1917 Code)
- Necessity of sacramental confession before engagement
- Mortal dangers of mixed marriages (Canon 1060)
- Essential bonum sacramenti (sacramental good) making marriage a visible sign of Christ’s union with the Church
Instead, Tibbetts promotes “joy” as the ultimate metric – a gnostic substitute for the cross-bearing required in authentic Catholic relationships. Pius XII warned against such emotionalism in Sacra Virginitas (1954):
“[Marriage] demands great moral strength… to persevere amidst the difficulties of life.”
Structural Apostasy Through Technological Syncretism
The “Relate” platform’s blend of dating shows, trivia nights, and speaker panels constitutes a Protestant-style “community center” model alien to Catholic ecclesiology. This digital aggiornamento (updating) replaces parish structures with algorithmic matchmaking, fulfilling Paul VI’s disastrous call for the Church to “recognize the web of human relationships which the progress of science and technology have made possible” (Ecclesiam Suam, 1964).
Nowhere does CatholicMatch require proof of baptismal status or doctrinal adherence – a fatal omission enabling sacrilegious “communion” between believers and modernists. The platform’s YouTube dissemination compounds this sin by normalizing sacrilege for “nonmembers,” violating the Communicantes principle forbidding communion with heretics.
Masonic Roots of CatholicMatch’s False Charity
The operation’s fixation on solving “loneliness” through human systems echoes Freemasonry’s materialist philanthropy. As Pius IX condemned in Quanta Cura (1864):
“[They] spread the evil and fallacious idea that the salvation of souls can be better achieved by the agency of natural reason than by the virtue and power of divine faith.”
True Catholic charity – exemplified by St. John Bosco’s preventative system – forms souls in grace before addressing social needs. By prioritizing emotional fulfillment over sanctification, CatholicMatch operates as a welfare agency for conciliarism’s walking wounded. Tibbetts’ dating hotline completes this diabolical inversion, replacing spiritual directors with untrained “experts” dispensing modernist poison as “advice.”
The abomination culminates in audience polls determining couples’ compatibility – a democratization of sacramental discernment that mocks the hierarchical nature of God’s Church. As St. Pius X declared in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“Modernists replace divine authority with popular consensus… making religion a product of collective consciousness.”
Until Catholics abandon these technological idols and return to sacramental life under valid priests, such spectacles will proliferate – synthetic substitutes for the true communio sanctorum (communion of saints) found only in the Church of Tradition.
Source:
Cupid goes Catholic: New faith-based dating show brings faith and matchmaking together (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.12.2025