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Catholic Online

Catholic Online / Catholic Financial Services / Michael Galloway Saga Ends

March 26, 2009

For anyone who hasn’t been following the extremely drawn out saga concerning Catholic Online, Catholic Financial Services, Michael Galloway and his various escapades, you can get some background here. Basically, he scammed multiple organizations, including some nuns and a marriage rehabilitation organization out of thousands of dollars. It took us over a year to get [...]

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Catholic Media Association – WARNING!

May 2, 2008

We just received the following email:

Dear Catholic Communicator:
As a fellow communicator, we want to personally extend an invitation to become a part of making history.
In his visit to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI called for a “New Pentecost.”
In response to this call – and the continuing call of the Church to [...]

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More On Catholic Online

April 30, 2008

In case you have missed the ongoing saga with Catholic Online, you can read past problems here.
For those who still aren’t convinced that this organization (which still owes us several hundred dollars and is due in court in August on multiple counts of fraud) is bad, you can read the compiled list of liens filed [...]

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More Information on the Catholic Online Alleged Crimes

December 11, 2007

The poor lady who runs a website selling old images has had her work stolen by Catholic Online and sold in their Chant Art section for over a year (taken offline since last week) without compensating her even though she is still listed as the owner in their user agreement. We also know that the [...]

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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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The Catholic Liturgical Library is NOT Dead!

February 16, 2007

A couple of weeks ago we sent a request to Catholic.org, our former host for catholicliturgy.com, to send us our database for the site because we wanted to bring the hosting back in house. We never received a reply so we made another request last week. Again there was no reply but today, without warning, [...]

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