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Catholic Financial Services

Catholic Financial Services Update

July 24, 2007

It appears that we aren’t the only ones who were subject to banking fraud by Catholic Online. The district attorney of Kern County in California has subpoenaed the president of Catholic Online, Michael Galloway, to answer for numerous complaints filed by non-profits and at least one diocese.
If you are owed money by Catholic Financial Services, [...]

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What Would You Call an Organization That…

June 26, 2007

was holding several thousand dollars of your money.
hadn’t released the money to you even though you had requested its dispersement three months earlier.
doesn’t ever answer the phone.
doesn’t ever respond to voice mail.
doesn’t ever respond to email unless you make threats.
lies about receiving documentation you sent.
does not follow its own dispute resolution policy.

I think that would [...]

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Catholic Financial Services Update

May 23, 2007

Update: Back on May 9th Catholic Financial Services acknowledged receipt of our completed forms and said that our withdrawal request was being resubmitted. Today (May 24th) we received all of our paperwork back from the post office unopened with an “unclaimed” note attached. This means that a) CFS lied about getting our mailed paperwork and [...]

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An Update on Catholic Financial Services and Catholic Online

April 3, 2007

Well, it has now been three weeks since we tried to withdraw our money from Catholic Financial Services (CFS). It has been one week since we started calling and emailing both CFS and Catholic Online asking why we don’t have the money yet. To date there hasn’t been a response.
However, we did receive an interesting [...]

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Don’t Ever Do Business With Catholic Online

March 30, 2007

After having to threaten legal action in order to get our Catholic Liturgical Library data released to us last month after they shut down the site without warning, Catholic Online (Catholic.org) has figured out a way to outdo themselves in the poor customer service realm.
Catholic Online created a company called Catholic Financial Services which is [...]

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