A lot of trads have this big hesitation with dating apps that I don't really understand, they're not ideal but it's the same as Matthew said about driving a car, there's not really much options. But if you really don't want to use them, use that one matchmaking thread and that social media thing MaterDominici started. I can almost guarantee you'll get a suitor.
Here you can also filter by traditional Catholics: Discord catholic dating servers and Duolicious.
If you're older there's Facebook groups. In the States there's even Facebook Dating but I don't know if you can filter there.
There is a difference between
- the young woman advertising herself online and young men reaching out to her first with passive "input" from her parents.
- The father advertising his daughter online and the young men reaching out to the father\male guardian first.
If I was a father, I would never allow a daughter under my roof the first option but I would be okay with the second option. The duty of the father is to assist their daughter to find a husband. It is not her job to scour the four corners of the earth like some intrepid explorer of uncharted territory. That's a modern idea and dating websites (Catholic or not) encourage this which is why Trads are correct in having reservations about them.
And these same distinctions can be made offline too. A father going up to a young man he knows and asking him "Would you like to court my daughter?" As opposed to a young man going up to a woman and asking her out and then addressing the father. Huge difference.