Welcome to the Catholic Hangout forums, a dedicated space for Catholics worldwide to connect, converse, and cultivate friendships. This platform is designed as a sanctuary to start or end your day, deepen your understanding of the Catholic faith, and build global friendships.

Our community is open to practicing Catholics, those on the journey to join the Church, and those who may have distanced themselves but are contemplating a return. We respect your faith journey and assume that by registering, you identify as a Catholic or aspire to be one.

While we are not a dating site, we do provide a private messaging system for those who wish to engage in one-on-one conversations. We are not here to compete with Catholic or secular dating platforms. Our focus is on fostering a sense of camaraderie, sharing information, making new friends, and facilitating discussions on all topics, barring politics.

Catholic Hangout is a free forum, but maintaining our online presence does incur costs. Our team is volunteer-based, keeping our expenses minimal. From time to time, we may request donations to help us sustain the platform. If you’re able to contribute a token donation of around $20 or $25 upon registration, we’d greatly appreciate it. However, if you’re unable to do so, you’re still wholeheartedly welcome. All members enjoy full access to the site, regardless of their ability to donate. Remember, every little bit helps in keeping the lights on.

We commit to a no-ads policy and promise not to bring in sponsors or sell or share any data provided by our members. Catholic Hangout is a not-for-profit initiative, born out of the belief that Catholics need a space to gather, discuss their faith and lifestyles, and most importantly, to engage in friendly conversations. Welcome aboard!

The Catholic Hangout team.

If you see something that looks like spammers or trolls posting, please contact us by clicking on, “contact us” at the bottom of any page or send a PM to any of the staff. If you are being pestered by another member (non-members cannot post or send messages), or sense that someone is trying to scam you, please, by all means, contact us so we can take appropriate action. Because there is no charge to register and we are not a dating site, we will attract more spammers than scammers but nothing precludes scammers and other annoying people to show up. It’s just the way things are.

Here's our rules, we didn't even bother to number them since there aren't that many. All we ask is that you use common sense when posting, or reporting a post:

We ask that you do not post personal contact information in publicly accessible areas of the site, such as email addresses, social networking information, or specific physical address of yourself and others. There are just too many bad guys looking for this information. Use our private messaging system for that.

Please do not post personal inflammatory comments about other members or non-members or against the Church

Do watch your language, this is a Catholic forum. We do have a banned list of words that just won’t display, and we do have moderators that can and will delete or edit posts with offensive or vile language including words commonly viewed as vulgar, abusive, racist or sexist.

You may post photos, just make sure they are in good taste. Posting nude or distasteful photos can get you banned.

No political posts. There is no good ending to starting a discussion about politics. There are many other social sites that you can go to. Leave your political leanings at home, we want our relationships to remain friendly so posts deemed politically charged will be deleted..

If you like a product, item, a book or whatever, post about it, post a link to it, just don’t post an ad for for it

And be gentle with discussions about the Church and its teachings. We are open to discussions about these things, just don’t trash the Church, our pope or priests or ideology. Keep all discussions healthy.

You can post quotes, but be sure that what you do post is not in violation of any copyright issues, otherwise it’s best to post a link to what you’re talking about.

Please do not start the same thread in different forum categories, duplicates will be deleted by our staff if you do.

And lastly, all posts need to be in English. Our private messaging system is available if you want to talk to someone in another language.

Just checking

This is a test thread