What Crawford has to say is only titillating to those who already agree with him. And barely at that, since a bunch of "his faithful" in St. Cloud just all decided they'd rather go to mass where they choose then only go to him.
He road the coattails of the CMRI around the country, subversively trying to establish something of a network of credulous laity who would support him once he came out of his Feeneyite closet.
There's nothing civilized about him at all. He's rude, condescending, impatient, and he writes like a middle-schooler. That's before you get to his actual arguments which are sourced improperly, rely on fraudulent material (when they're not lifted out of context and brute-forced into new meanings), and so on. Even if he actually happened to be an honest, decent person, you're still dealing with someone who is a philosophical and theological train wreck.