For guilds, business groups & young professionals
Where Catholic professionals actually meet.
Run your Catholic business network on the platform built for Catholic life — monthly dinners with RSVPs, door check-in, announcements, and a business directory that gives back to members. Free, with no annual dues to us and no attendance penalties.
Free to run your group · No credit card · Set up in minutes
- 16,548
- U.S. parish pages — every metro covered
- 9,788
- chapters mapped, guilds included
- iOS · Android · Web
- your members are already here
- Free
- to run your network — no credit card
Why networks move here
Hundreds a year in dues before your first referral
Free to run your network — dues stay yours, if you charge them
Attendance penalties and rigid meeting rules
Your group, your culture — guests always welcome
Networking kept separate from your faith
Your network inside Catholic life — parishes, Mass times, and all
Everything your network runs on
The rhythm of a professional group — gather, connect, follow up — without the spreadsheet-and-reminder-email grind.
Recurring events that fill themselves
First Friday dinner, monthly breakfast, quarterly retreat — set it once. Members RSVP and get reminders without a single follow-up email.
Check-in at the door
One tap per person as they arrive, a live headcount for the venue, and attendance history that makes membership renewals honest.
Announcements members actually see
Speaker changes, venue updates, prayer requests — delivered in the app and by email to exactly your group, not a newsletter void.
Growth by invitation
Members invite colleagues by search, share link, or email. A guest who came for dinner joins the group before dessert.
A Catholic business directory
Members' businesses belong in the Catholic Business Directory — attorneys, advisors, contractors, counselors — found by Catholics who want to hire their own.
City chapters, one network
Growing beyond one city? Your network's page lists every chapter by distance, and five interested people is all a new city needs to start.
01The monthly gathering
Set the dinner once. Watch the room fill.
Your recurring event lives in members' apps with automatic reminders. RSVPs give you real numbers for the venue; check-in at the door gives you real attendance for the board meeting.
- Recurring monthly or quarterly events, set once
- RSVP counts you can give the caterer
- One-tap check-in and full attendance history
First Friday Dinner
Recurring monthly · 26 going
- Elena VasquezVasquez Family LawGoing
- Mark OseiOsei Financial GroupGoing
- Claire Dunn+1 guestGoing
- Tomas HerreraHerrera ConstructionGoing
Announcement
To: OCIA 2026 · 24 members
The Rite of Election is this Sunday at the cathedral — please arrive by 2:30 PM. Sponsors, remember to sit with your catechumen.
02Keep members close
Between meetings, stay one announcement away.
Speaker lineups, member news, prayer intentions — posted once, delivered to the app and inboxes. And when a member brings a colleague, a share link makes them a member before they leave the parking lot.
- Announcements in-app and by email
- Invites by search, share link, or email
- Members carry the group on iOS, Android, and web
03The business console
Your listing, fully in your hands.
Every member's business gets a free listing in the Catholic Business Directory — and its own console to run it: edit everything, upload your photo, watch your profile completeness, and promote it when you want more reach.
- Edit your listing anytime — name, category, photo, hours, contact
- A completeness checklist that makes you easier to find
- City chapters with interest-based expansion built in
Your listing
Business console · Vasquez Family Law
- Photo
- Description
- Website & phone
- Category
Missing something? We build it with you.
Catholic Connect ships every week, and the roadmap is written with the leaders who use it. Tell us what your networkactually needs — if it serves the Church, we'll build it alongside you.
Tell us what you need →- Referral tracking between members
- A member-directory embed for your own website
- Guest follow-up and membership pipelines
- Dues & renewal tracking
- Sponsor and venue management
- Whatever your network needs next — tell us below
04The Catholic Business Directory
One directory. Honest labels.
Any business can list free — you don't have to be Catholic-owned to be here. The ✝ Catholic-owned label is claimed by owners who attest to it, like the labels Google gives businesses — so when Catholics want to hire their own, they can see exactly who that is. Businesses connected to a parish carry that too.
- 115,213
- businesses listed
- 2
- carry the Catholic-owned label
- 1,101
- connected to a parish
- 115,229
- mapped, waiting for their owners
Catholic Business Directory
Members of Houston Catholic Business Guild
Made for the people who bring the room together
Guild & network presidents
Chasing RSVPs for the monthly dinner across email, texts, and a shared sheet?
One event, set once — RSVPs, reminders, guest counts, and door check-in handled. You focus on the speaker and the room.
Young professional organizers
Your happy-hour crowd never converts into committed members?
Guests join the group with a share link on the spot, get the next event automatically, and see everything in the app they already carry.
Catholic business owners
Want your business found by people who share your values?
Claim your listing in the Catholic Business Directory and meet fellow owners in a local group — commerce and communion in the same place.
Catholic Connect Ads
When you're ready for more reach, promote it.
Your business in front of Catholics in your city who'd rather hire their own. A photo, a headline, and a budget — we take it from there.
- Pick a goal — visitors, calls, event RSVPs, or awareness — and we optimize for it
- Runs across Catholic Connect in your area — feed, search, and nearby
- Every ad is reviewed by our team — you only pay once it's approved
- You set the budget up front — it's the cap, never a surprise
- Live views, clicks, and delivery right in your console's Promote tab
Promote · Campaign
Vasquez Family Law
Free to run your network
Groups, events, RSVPs, attendance, and announcements are free — no platform fee eating your dues.
Faith-first, not LinkedIn-lite
Built for the Church — parishes, Mass times, and prayer are first-class here. Your network lives inside Catholic life, not beside it.
The directory works for members
The Catholic Business Directory sends value back to every member's business — a concrete reason to join and stay.
Real people answer
Requests from this page go to our team, not a ticket queue. Ask below or write to [email protected].
Faith and work belong together. Professional guilds are already mapped in our organizations directory, and the Catholic Business Directory exists so Catholics can find — and hire — their own.
Frequently asked questions
What is Catholic business networking on Catholic Connect?
Free tools to run a Catholic professional group: recurring events with RSVPs and reminders, one-tap check-in, announcements delivered in-app and by email, member invites, and a listing in the Catholic Business Directory. Professional guilds are already mapped in our organizations directory alongside 9,788 local chapters.
Is it really free? How?
Yes — running your group and its events is free, with no credit card. Catholic Connect is building the platform where Catholic community happens, and professional groups are part of that community.
We're a chapter of a national organization like Legatus or YCP. Does this fit?
Yes. National professional organizations and their local chapters are mapped in our directory — your chapter runs as its own group with its own events and members, while the national page helps Catholics find you by distance.
What is the Catholic Business Directory?
A public directory of Catholic-owned businesses and faithful professionals — attorneys, financial advisors, counselors, doctors, contractors, and more — searchable by category and location. Owners can claim their listing free.
How does this compare to BNI or a chamber of commerce?
BNI chapters typically cost several hundred dollars a year in dues with strict attendance requirements, and chambers charge annual membership fees. Catholic Connect is free, guests are welcome, and there are no attendance penalties — your group sets its own culture. And it's faith-first: your network lives alongside parishes, Mass times, and the rest of Catholic life.
Can we charge dues or sell tickets through the platform?
Not today — Catholic Connect handles the community side: events, RSVPs, attendance, communication, and growth. Keep your existing dues process and let the platform do the organizing. If dues tracking would change your life, tell us — we build alongside our partners.
Talk to our team
Tell us about your network — a guild chapter, a young-professionals circle, a city breakfast — and we'll walk you through it personally.
- A 15-minute walkthrough of events, check-in, and growth
- Help setting up your group and first event
- Honest answers — if we're not the right fit, we'll say so
Prefer email? [email protected]
Bring your network where the faithful already are
Start your group free today, or let us walk you through it first.