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About Rachel Hoover Canto
Rachel Hoover Canto is a freelance journalist and author of the book Pretty Good Catholic: How to Find, Date, and Marry Someone who Shares Your Faith (Vianney Vocations, 2024). She holds a B.A. from Christendom College and lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her family.
Features

New Catholic dating app marries matchmaking tradition with digital era

February 5, 2026 Rachel Hoover Canto 18

Emily Wilson Hussem is an internationally recognized Catholic speaker, best-selling author of seven books, and YouTuber who shares her faith both online and at events around the globe. After pioneering social media matchmaking posts and seeing […]

The Dispatch

A Catholic defense of trick-or-treating

October 30, 2025 Rachel Hoover Canto 56

Alas, it is that time of year again when certain suburban moms across America log onto the neighborhood Facebook group to request that Halloween trick-or-treating be moved to a different day so that their kids […]

The Dispatch

Can I still meet my future spouse in real life?

April 22, 2024 Rachel Hoover Canto 3

If you’re a single Catholic desirous of marriage, and you ask the Internet how to meet your spouse, you will invariably be given the same two suggestions: “Go to Mass and talk to anyone who […]

Features

Catholic tribalism and the decline of marriage

February 27, 2024 Rachel Hoover Canto 31

“Trads” (or devotees of the traditional Latin Mass), charismatic Catholics (or those who emphasize the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit in life and worship), conservative Catholics, liberal Catholics—we live in a time of great […]

Features

Callings, consequences, and vocational crises

February 2, 2023 Rachel Hoover Canto 20

Spend time with any group of devout young Catholics, and you will inevitably hear some talk of vocational discernment. Religious life, priesthood, or marriage? The decision comes easily to some, but others spend years discovering […]

Analysis

How to help Catholics get married

January 19, 2023 Rachel Hoover Canto 40

In Part One of this essay, I noted that marriage rates have declined in recent decades, including among Catholics, and that there are countless reasons for this trend. While many Catholics have been impacted by […]

Analysis

Why aren’t young Catholics marrying?

January 13, 2023 Rachel Hoover Canto 131

We all know that marriage rates are low in the United States. The most recent American Family Survey found that only 45% of Americans are currently married (down from 50% in 2015). Despite the Church’s […]

Books

God, saints, and sinners, according to Robert Hugh Benson

November 12, 2022 Rachel Hoover Canto 5

What is God like? Let us look at His creation and actions. He could have created just “tree,” but instead He created countless kinds of trees: palm, spruce, balsam fir, zelkova. And He could have […]

Books

The Chronicles of Transformation is a seven-course feast for the soul

October 4, 2022 Rachel Hoover Canto 1

Which is your favorite Narnia book? If you need help deciding, or if you already love all of C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and want to love them more, pick up The Chronicles of […]

Books

Beyond Kristin Lavransdatter: Sigrid Undset as convert, intellectual, reader of hearts

August 23, 2022 Rachel Hoover Canto 4

Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is most famous for her award-winning Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. But she wrote much more than that epic work of historical fiction. Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts, a new biography and study of […]

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