Catholic dating in New York
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Short answer
New York's archdiocese has done what the forums keep asking for: it publishes its young adult groups county by county, with the church, the street address and, for many, the evening. This page is built on that list. In Manhattan alone the archdiocese names a Sunday young adult Mass at seven at Old St Patrick's on Mulberry Street, another at six at St Joseph's in Greenwich Village, another at half past seven at the Church of the Epiphany, one at noon at St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue and one on the first and third Sundays at half past five at St Patrick's Cathedral; a holy hour on the second Saturday for the Frassati Fellowship, a first-Friday Mass and holy hour for the Goretti Group at St Agnes, and a Hakuna holy hour every other Wednesday at the Old Cathedral. The Bronx and Staten Island have their own lists, with a second-Saturday holy hour at St Michael's; the Hudson Valley has monthly young adult Masses at two shrines and three parishes on fixed weekdays. Around the list, the page adds the Catholic Center at NYU, Columbia's Thomas Merton Institute, the Newman centers of Queens College, Syracuse and Binghamton, Juventutem's Latin Mass at Holy Innocents, and the Cabrini Shrine in Washington Heights. Twenty-five places, each with an address.
The archdiocese states its age on every county page, and this page quotes it: young adults are eighteen to thirty-five, and the Frassati Fellowship describes itself as a community of young adults in their twenties and thirties. Brooklyn publishes a mission and a campus directory without an age, and the page does not add one.
This page belongs to cana.love, which is free, made for people who want marriage rather than a match, and built on a form that asks what the person next to you at the seven o'clock Mass on Mulberry Street would want to know by the third Sunday: how many Sundays a month you are at Mass, which parish, what you do about fasting, whether marriage is the aim. It is not a Catholic-only site; a section below says so plainly.
Catholics in New York
The Office of Youth Ministry, Young Adult Ministry and the University Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New York says it has more than a hundred and thirty active parish youth, young adult and campus ministries, and it lists them by county on its own site with a sentence, a street address and, where there is one, a rhythm. Manhattan's page runs to more than twenty groups. The Frassati Fellowship of New York, at the church of St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, calls itself a community of young adults in their twenties and thirties, keeps a holy hour on the second Saturday of the month at seven, and shares the church with a Sunday noon young adult Mass, a swing dance and the Catholic salsa socials, which the archdiocese's calendar describes as free introductory classes followed by social dancing, no partner needed. The Goretti Group meets at St Agnes on East 43rd Street on the first Friday, Mass at ten past five and a holy hour at a quarter to six. Old St Patrick's young adults have a Sunday Mass at seven at the basilica on Mulberry Street and a Hakuna holy hour every other Wednesday at half past seven; St Joseph's young professionals have a Sunday Mass at six in Greenwich Village; the Church of the Epiphany has one at half past seven; the cathedral's young adults have theirs on the first and third Sundays at half past five, and the archdiocese adds a monthly young adult Mass at the cathedral with a worship band. FiDi Faithful gathers at St Peter's on Barclay Street for the financial district; Christ in the City's young adult community meets at Holy Cross on West 30th Street; Juventutem NYC, the young adults of the Latin Mass, is at the Church of the Holy Innocents on West 37th Street.
The Bronx page is shorter and just as concrete: Corazón Puro at St Crispin's Friary on East 156th Street, Restless Heart at St Nicholas of Tolentine on University Avenue, The Encounter at St Dominic's on Unionport Road, and half a dozen parish groups besides. Staten Island's page lists four groups and one evening a stranger can walk into, the young adult holy hour at St Michael's on Harbor Road on the second Saturday of the month at half past seven; Ignited by Faith at St Clare's in Great Kills provides the music for the cathedral's young adult Mass. North of the city, the archdiocese's Hudson Valley pages give the monthly rhythm of the counties: Mater Dei's young adult Mass and holy hour on the first Tuesday at the Marian Shrine of St John Bosco in Stony Point; the Catholic Corps' Mass on the second Thursday at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middletown; Ignite's Mass on the last Wednesday at Holy Trinity in Poughkeepsie; the ICA Young Apostles on the fourth Tuesday in Tuckahoe; Benedictus' holy hour on a Wednesday in Montgomery.
From the archdiocese's county pages and the groups' own sites, opened 20 September 2026
The campuses are the other half of the city's map. The archdiocese's University Apostolate directory places the Dominican chaplains of the Catholic Center at NYU on Thompson Street in charge of Baruch, Hunter, John Jay, Cooper Union, FIT, Pace, the New School and the CUNY graduate school as well; Columbia has the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life on West 114th Street; City College has Annunciation on Convent Avenue. Brooklyn's diocese publishes its own campus directory, and the one entry with a street address is the Catholic Newman Center at Queens College on Kissena Boulevard, with daily Mass and FOCUS missionaries. Upstate, the Syracuse University Catholic Center on Walnut Place and the Newman House at Binghamton in Vestal are on the page; Cornell's address is a post-office box and RIT's site did not answer, so they are not.
Two gaps are stated rather than hidden. The Eparchy of St Maron of Brooklyn is seated in the city, but its page for the cathedral gives the chancery's address and not the cathedral's, and the one Byzantine site the page tried did not answer, so there is no Eastern Catholic card here. And the dioceses of Rockville Centre, Buffalo, Rochester and Albany publish nothing for young adults that this page could find, so Long Island and most of upstate are represented by campuses only.
Where the community gathers
New York's practising Catholic singles gather in five places: Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, Queens, the Hudson Valley, and upstate.
Manhattan
Manhattan holds twelve of the twenty-five places: the cathedral on Fifth Avenue, St Vincent Ferrer and Frassati on Lexington Avenue, the Goretti Group at St Agnes near Grand Central, the Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street, St Joseph's in Greenwich Village, the Church of the Epiphany in Gramercy, Holy Innocents in the Garment District, the Catholic Center at NYU, Columbia's Merton Institute, St Peter's on Barclay Street, Holy Cross in Chelsea and the Cabrini Shrine in Washington Heights.
The Bronx and Staten Island
The Bronx and Staten Island are five: St Crispin's Friary, St Nicholas of Tolentine and St Dominic's in the Bronx; St Michael's in Mariners Harbor and St Clare's in Great Kills on Staten Island.
Queens
Queens is one: the Newman Center at Queens College in Flushing.
The Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley is five: Tuckahoe in Westchester, Stony Point in Rockland, Middletown and Montgomery in Orange, Poughkeepsie in Dutchess.
Upstate
Upstate is two: Syracuse and Binghamton, four hours from the city.
Meeting places worth knowing
A young adult Mass on the first and third Sundays of the month at half past five, and the archdiocese's monthly young adult Mass, holy hour and social with a worship band.
14 East 51st StreetNew York
NY 10022
A community of young adults in their twenties and thirties, in its own words, at St Vincent Ferrer: a holy hour on the second Saturday at seven, a fall retreat, and, at the same church, a Sunday noon young adult Mass, a swing dance and the Catholic salsa socials.
869 Lexington AvenueNew York
NY 10065
Mass at ten past five and a holy hour at a quarter to six on the first Friday of the month, near Grand Central.
143 East 43rd StreetNew York
NY 10017
A young adult Mass every Sunday at seven in the evening and a Hakuna holy hour every other Wednesday at half past seven.
263 Mulberry StreetNew York
NY 10012
A young adult Mass every Sunday at six at St Joseph's, run with the Catholic Center at NYU.
371 6th AvenueNew York
NY 10014
A young adult Mass every Sunday at half past seven.
375 2nd AvenueNew York
NY 10010
The young adults of the Traditional Latin Mass, at the shrine church in the Garment District.
128 West 37th StreetNew York
NY 10018
The Dominican chaplaincy that the archdiocese's directory names for NYU and for Baruch, Hunter, John Jay, Cooper Union, FIT, Pace and the New School.
238 Thompson StreetNew York
NY 10012
The Catholic community at Columbia University, at the Church of Notre Dame.
405 West 114th StreetNew York
NY 10025
The young adult group of the financial district at St Peter's, Our Lady of Victory.
22 Barclay StreetNew York
NY 10007
A young adult community at the parish of Holy Cross and St John the Baptist.
213 West 30th StreetNew York
NY 10001
The shrine of St Frances Cabrini, with Mass times and events on its own site.
701 Fort Washington AvenueNew York
NY 10040
A young adult movement based at the friary on East 156th Street in Mott Haven.
420 East 156th StreetBronx
NY 10455
The parish's young adult group, with its own page on the parish site.
2345 University AvenueBronx
NY 10468
A young adult community with its own site, based at St Dominic's in Van Nest.
1739 Unionport RoadBronx
NY 10460
The parish of St Clement and St Michael's young adult holy hour on the second Saturday of the month at half past seven.
211 Harbor RoadStaten Island
NY 10303
The young adult community whose music ministry leads the cathedral's young adult Mass.
110 Nelson AvenueStaten Island
NY 10308
Daily Mass, confession, a chapel and FOCUS missionaries, by the Diocese of Brooklyn's directory.
65-30 Kissena BoulevardFlushing
NY 11367
A young adult Mass and holy hour on the first Tuesday of the month at seven, at the shrine in Rockland.
174 Filors LaneStony Point
NY 10980
A young adult holy hour at half past six and Mass at seven on the second Thursday of the month.
68 Carmelite DriveMiddletown
NY 10940
A young adult Mass on the last Wednesday of the month at seven, run by a group that meets at various places across the archdiocese.
775 Main StreetPoughkeepsie
NY 12603
Meetings on the fourth Tuesday of the month at seven at Immaculate Conception in Westchester.
53 Winterhill RoadTuckahoe
NY 10707
A young adult holy hour on the third or fourth Wednesday of the month at six at the parish of Holy Name of Mary and Assumption.
89 Union StreetMontgomery
NY 12549
The Alibrandi Catholic Center on University Hill.
110 Walnut PlaceSyracuse
NY 13210
The Catholic campus ministry of Binghamton.
400 Murray Hill RoadVestal
NY 13850
Distances that decide everything
A schematic, not a map. Driving and train times as given in the text.
In Manhattan the distances are subway stops: the six Sunday young adult Masses lie between Mulberry Street and 51st Street, and a young adult can try a different one each Sunday of the month without leaving the island. The Bronx and Staten Island are each their own borough with their own list, forty minutes from Midtown by train or ferry; Queens College is an hour on the 7 train and a bus.
The Hudson Valley is a car: Tuckahoe is half an hour from Grand Central by train, Stony Point an hour up the west shore, Middletown and Montgomery an hour and a half north-west, Poughkeepsie an hour and three quarters up the Hudson line. Syracuse and Binghamton are four hours from the city, and a student there dates within the county or writes.
The Catholic year in New York
Sundays
Young adult Masses at noon at St Vincent Ferrer, at six at St Joseph's, at seven at Old St Patrick's, at half past seven at the Epiphany, and on the first and third Sundays at half past five at the cathedral: five in Manhattan alone, each with a social after.
First Fridays and second Saturdays
The Goretti Group's Mass and holy hour at St Agnes on the first Friday; Frassati's holy hour at St Vincent Ferrer and the young adult holy hour at St Michael's on Staten Island on the second Saturday.
Wednesdays
The Hakuna holy hour at the Old Cathedral every other Wednesday; Ignite's Mass in Poughkeepsie on the last Wednesday; Benedictus' holy hour in Montgomery on the third or fourth.
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Mater Dei at the Marian Shrine on the first Tuesday, the ICA Young Apostles in Tuckahoe on the fourth, the Catholic Corps at the Mount Carmel shrine on the second Thursday.
The monthly cathedral Mass
The archdiocese's young adult Mass, holy hour and social at St Patrick's Cathedral, with a worship band, on a weekday evening each month.
Seasons
Frassati's fall retreat, the swing dance and salsa socials on Lexington Avenue, the school year at the campus centers from Thompson Street to Syracuse.
Dating as a practising Catholic in New York
A Sunday evening Mass in Manhattan tells you four things about the people in the pews, and it takes a month of Sundays to learn them. The cana.love form asks the same four before the first.
The evening tells you, eventually; the form asks Sundays
The evening tells you, eventually, that someone is there every Sunday; the form asks how often you attend church services, with five answers from every Sunday to rarely, and you decide who sees your answer. On the Catholic forums that is the question people say they most want answered first, and here everyone you see has answered it.
The evening tells you when asked; the form asks the parish
The evening tells you which parish, when you ask; the form asks which parish you attend, in your own words, and what you do for a living and what the meaning of life is for you, all free text, so that Old St Patrick's or St Vincent Ferrer has been said before the first coffee.
The evening never tells you fasting; the form asks
The evening never tells you about fasting; the form asks your attitude to it, from strict to learning, and how often you read Scripture, beside the question of faith itself, where Catholic is one answer alongside Orthodox Christian, Protestant and others, and where the list of Orthodox jurisdictions further down is for Orthodox members and a Catholic leaves it blank.
The evening asks for trust; the site checks
The evening asks you to trust the room; the site was built not to have to. Registration has one purpose, looking for marriage. A profile and its photographs are reviewed before anyone sees them, and a doubtful one goes to a person. Asking another member for money ends in a permanent ban. There is no subscription and no paid tier, and sign-in is a one-time link to your email, so there is no password to lose.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not a Catholic-only platform.
Members include Orthodox Christians, Protestants and people without a confession who want the same kind of marriage, and each member's own filters decide whom they see. In a city whose archdiocese counts more than a hundred and thirty ministries for young people and whose salsa socials say everyone is welcome, promising anything narrower would be untrue. The promise the site does make is precise: faith, practice and intention are questions on the form, answered by everyone you meet, as they were by you. Cana SpA of Santiago, Chile, is the company behind it, and the About page says the rest.
Meeting safely
- Meet first where there are other people, the social after a Sunday young adult Mass or a holy hour, and tell a friend where; keep writing on the site until you, rather than the other person, choose to move the conversation elsewhere.
- Money stays in your pocket until you have met someone in person; on cana.love a request for it is reported, and the person who asked does not come back.
The guidelines page explains reviews, reports and appeals.
Common questions
Is cana.love available in New York?
Yes. Anyone over eighteen can join from any borough or county; nothing is installed, the site runs in the browser of a phone or a laptop, and it speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian.
I am over 35. Is there anything on this page for me?
The archdiocese draws its line at thirty-five on every county page and the parish groups on its list go with it; the campus centers are for students. What has no ceiling is on the page too: Juventutem's Latin Mass at Holy Innocents, the Cabrini Shrine, the two Hudson Valley shrines outside their young adult evenings, and the Sunday Masses themselves, which are the parish's and open to anyone. No diocese in New York publishes a group for people over thirty-five that this page could find.
The young adult group takes people up to a certain age. Then what?
The Sunday Mass at Old St Patrick's or St Vincent Ferrer does not check anyone's age at the door, and neither do the shrines or the Latin Mass; the parish keeps you after the group lets you go. And a profile on cana.love asks how many Sundays a month you are at Mass, not how many birthdays you have had.
Where is the Traditional Latin Mass in New York?
On this page at the Church of the Holy Innocents on West 37th Street, where Juventutem NYC, the young adults of the old rite, is based; the archdiocese's list gives Juventutem's address and this page stops there rather than listing churches it could not check.
Are there Eastern Catholic parishes in New York?
The Eparchy of St Maron of Brooklyn is seated in the city, but its cathedral page gives the chancery's address rather than the church's, and the one Byzantine site the page tried did not answer; there is no Eastern Catholic card here, and that is a gap in the page's sources, not in the city.
Which groups say what age they are for?
The archdiocese, eighteen to thirty-five, on every county page; the Frassati Fellowship, twenties and thirties, in its own words. Brooklyn and the campus centers say students or nothing, and this page quotes them exactly.
How far should I search in New York?
Manhattan as one region, the other boroughs each as their own, the Hudson Valley by county, and upstate by city; a Sunday Mass on Mulberry Street is a subway ride from anywhere in the city and a drive from Poughkeepsie. Say on your profile which borough or county you call home, because the archdiocese's list does.
Where can I find every Catholic parish in New York?
Each of the eight dioceses keeps its own parish finder, and the archdiocese's county pages are the place to start for young adult groups; what is here is a page of meeting places, deliberately shorter than a parish list.
Next steps
Go to the seven o'clock Mass at Old St Patrick's on a Sunday, or to Frassati's holy hour on the second Saturday, or to the first-Tuesday Mass at the Marian Shrine if you are north of the city, and stay for the social. Then, if you would rather know how many Sundays a month someone is at Mass before you know their face, create a profile on cana.love: it is free, and the form asks the questions this page cannot.
Reviewed on September 20, 2026.
Photographs, all Wikimedia Commons: The nave of the Church of St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, New York — Bestbudbrian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Basilica of St Patrick's Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street, New York — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Church of the Holy Innocents on West 37th Street, New York — Jim.henderson, CC0