CathoNet

At CathoNet, we’ve helped Catholic dioceses across the United States improve their fiscal management by leveraging the cloud to connect the Church with the most popular and most trusted accounting software. Our state of the art technology has enabled parishes, schools, and chancery offices to work together easily, reliably, and securely. What started as a collaboration between Right Networks and the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has grown into an industry leader.

In 2006, Bridgeport’s Bishop selected recently ordained Deacon Bill Koniers to be Director of Parish Finance and tasked him with applying his 35+ years of success in global corporate financial management and operations to implement new standards and improved fiscal controls across the diocese. Deacon Bill collaborated with a team of priests, accountants, and bookkeepers to review their needs and evaluate dozens of solutions. Together, they chose a familiar and powerful combination of QuickBooks and Microsoft Office running within an enterprise-class Cloud from Right Networks. Enhancing this combination with a data warehouse and one-click consolidating reports gave the diocese what it needed to meet the objectives set by the Bishop.

The solution worked so well that Deacon Bill’s presentation of Bridgeport’s success at the 2007 Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference in Philadelphia marked a turning point for The US Church as dioceses and archdioceses from coast-to-coast rapidly adopted the solution. In 2011, with our solution fully deployed throughout over a dozen dioceses including Dallas, Chicago, Boston, San Jose, Fresno, and Honolulu, CathoNet was created as its own company. Today, CathoNet serves over 24 dioceses and remains the most rapidly adopted accounting system in the US Church, delivering its proven solution by combining the power and familiarity of QuickBooks and Microsoft Office with the stability and security of the Right Networks cloud.