Our Story
The wisdom to love well already exists.
We help you live it.
Finding Adam Finding Eve brings the Catholic Church's timeless understanding of love, marriage, and the human person to life in today's culture — and helps this generation build relationships that last.
At the heart of this ministry is Katie Palitto. She holds a Master's degree in Psychology from Divine Mercy University and has spent over a decade mentoring teens and young adults and walking with married couples through the real complexities of marriage and family life.
Katie was trained to treat the whole person — an integrated Catholic understanding of the human being as body and soul, rooted in the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. She doesn't separate your faith from your psychology, your wounds from your longings, or your past from who you're becoming. She meets all of it, because that's how God made you: one integrated person.
After years of this work, Katie kept meeting the same ache — faithful, capable people who wanted marriage and family but were never given the formation to get there. The wisdom they needed already existed: two thousand years of the Church's teaching on love, the body, and the human person. It just wasn't reaching them in a way they could use on an ordinary Tuesday night.
That's where Mike comes in. Katie's husband supports the ministry by building the technology platform that carries her work to far more people than a coaching schedule ever could, and by writing the curriculum and books that put this formation into people's hands.
Together, their work has one aim: to take the history and foundational wisdom of the Catholic Church and make it come alive in today's culture — restoring the beauty of marriage and family life.
“You were made for love that lasts. Our job is to help you become ready for it.”
— Katie & Mike Palitto
The 7+1 Framework
The path to marriage has been dismantled.
Seven converging cultural forces have created a self-reinforcing system destroying the capacity for love. No single-factor solution works.
Digital Rewiring
The first generation raised on smartphones enters adulthood with impaired social skills and dopamine systems trained on screens.
The Economic Trap
Student debt, unaffordable housing, and wage stagnation have removed the material foundation for marriage.
The Community Desert
Third places have collapsed. There are almost no organic contexts left where young people encounter one another as whole persons.
The Female Wound
Culture told women their distinctive gifts were weaknesses. The feminine genius has been suppressed, not destroyed.
The Male Wound
Men face identity crisis and mass withdrawal. The masculine genius of initiative-taking love has been suppressed, not destroyed.
Attraction Distortion
Pornography and social media have recalibrated desire. Dating apps reduced encounter to a 3-second swipe.
The Fertility Doom Loop
All six factors suppress family formation, creating a self-reinforcing spiral. Each generation is less equipped for love.
The Catholic Answer
Catholic anthropology uniquely provides a unified vision of the whole person — body, soul, identity, and vocation. Thousands of years of Church teachings interwoven into modern psychology, the feminine and masculine geniuses, complementarity, and the parish community together address what no single-factor solution can.
Theological Foundation
Be Known. Be Chosen. Be Given.
Be Known
Original Solitude — know who you are before God. Identity formation precedes relationship formation. You cannot give what you do not possess.
Be Chosen
Original Unity — the communion of persons. Being recognized and chosen by another. God does the bringing — FAFE helps you become capable of recognition.
Be Given
The Law of Gift — total self-donation. Marriage as sacrament. The body's language of love spoken fluently because it has been formed, healed, and ordered toward the real person in front of you.
Our Foundation
Grounded in Catholic Teaching
Everything we teach is drawn from the same books and documents your priest or spiritual director would reference — 2,000 years of Church wisdom on love, relationships, marriage, and the human person.
Sacred Scripture
All 73 books of the Catholic Bible
Catechism
2,865 paragraphs of official Church teaching
Theology of the Body
St. John Paul II's 129 audiences on love and sexuality
Papal Encyclicals
16 documents on marriage, family, and moral life
Summa Theologica
St. Thomas Aquinas on love, virtue, and human nature
Catholic Meta-Model
Integrating Catholic anthropology with modern psychology
Join the mission
Whether you're a teen, a young adult, a parent, a teacher, or a parish leader — there's a place for you.