I was impressed by the interview with the founders of the new “SacredSpark” dating app in the Oct. 17 issue, and the success stories of helping youth Catholics “match” with future spouses.

But I am not convinced that these kinds of apps, however well-intentioned, are the kind of solution Catholic leaders should be betting on to fix our modern marriage crisis.

The Church has to be a place that prioritizes in-person encounters. We seem slow to learn the lessons of COVID-19: isolation hurts us, and the image we project of ourselves online is often divorced from reality.

It’s beautiful when people fall in love and want to form a family together. But we should not be leaving that task to the internet.

— Tony Perez, Miami, Florida