Seems like we get a thread about Crawford once a year, and it's usually (though not always) something negative. In one of the longer previous threads, here's a couple of relatively specific reports from some anons:
Dominic Crawford has a small ministry in Minnesota, where he services his mom's family and another family. Mass is said (or not, given that Neal Webster ordained Crawford and its doubtful that Webster even has the right orders, and even more doubtful that he is competent enough to transmit orders). The community is very divided and it appears that Crawford is following Fr. Feeney in more than just doctrine, but in CULT tactics: most of the people who attend his mass have very purposefully severed ties with their other traditional Catholic relatives, drinking is not allowed, confessions are when Crawford allows you to go (he has made a schedule and you can only go when it is your turn-- whether you need to or not), and Holy Communion is intermittently REFUSED to the faithful for their own spiritual growth. Talk to him about any of this and he will simply tell you to pray the fifteen decade rosary and all your questions will be satisfied. If you do and you still have questions, you have not prayed enough. He is a charlatan who preys on pious and simple people, manipulating them unscrupulously. It is fashionable, apparently, for people online to defend him. But I do not think they know him. If they did, they would realize he is a TOTAL embarrassment to those who simply wish to believe as Fr. Feeney did.
https://www.cathinfo.com/members-only/fr-dominic-crawford/msg711440/#msg711440
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The situation up in MN is a sad one. What was once a unified CMRI parish, consisting mostly of one large, tight-knit family, including the parents, 13 children, and over 40 grandchildren has been shattered since Fr. Crawford's arrival in 2017. Half the children and their families continue on with the CMRI parish, and half follow Crawford. Those that follow Crawford shun their family members that don't follow him, having declared that they are going to Hell when they chose to stay with CMRI and not follow Crawford, and continuing to make such declarations in the rare occasions they cross paths. They won't show up when invited to family gatherings, and won't allow the children that go to CMRI, their nephews and nieces, visit or play with their own children. They've told their other family members that continued with the CMRI that they can't associate with any of them in any unnecessary way until they change their beliefs to align with theirs.
The followers of Fr. Crawford also developed new strange beliefs, ranging from rejecting the existence of Limbo, to declaring the color pink as being evil and from the devil. Much of their new focus is on modesty, scandal, and fraternal correction. They hold that shorts and short-sleeve shirts are sinful and scandalous, even if worn by boys or men. They have openly rebuked their sisters as being in mortal sin for causing them scandal simply because they could see their ankle, as they hold that dresses that don't cover a woman's or girl's ankle are sinfully scandalous. They believe they are obliged under pain of sin to correct anyone they think is sinning at all times and all places, no matter the circuŠ¼stances, even if it's a stranger in public. One young adult man who follows Crawford told his brother he couldn't go skiing with him because there would be girls wearing ski pants, and he believed he would be sinning if he refrained from telling them they were sinning. That same young man later told his brother he was mortally sinning for wearing shorts. He has now moved to shunning his brother, who was his closest friend all his life, won't talk to him when he's near, and, like his other siblings that follow Crawford, shuns all his other siblings and family members that stuck with the CMRI.
Many of these family members following Fr. Crawford claim to receive answers to all their questions and knowledge on all their beliefs, and any decisions, directly from God while praying. They say the knowledge is infused in them during prayer by God speaking to their heart, and they can't explain it in words. They credit this to praying a 15-decade rosary every day. They claimed this is how they knew to follow Crawford and reject the CMRI as evil. In conjunction with this, they disdain and distrust Catholic books, saying books have no value, as no books can be trusted to not have been corrupted, including all bibles or writings of the popes and councils. They've said the only knowledge that can be trusted is that which God gives to them directly in prayer, speaking to their heart, and that they know it's from God, rather than from their own feelings or the devil, because, "if you're humble enough, you'll know."
I'm told Fr. Crawford is very charming.
https://www.cathinfo.com/members-only/fr-dominic-crawford/msg711667/#msg711667
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"A lady at St. Jude's had a daughter run off and join Father Crawford's church up in Minnesota. She actually confirmed pretty much everything the CathInfo poster said about him, unfortunately. She said he makes all his parishioners pray the entire rosary daily (which in itself is not bad, but we're talking in the sense that they use it for spiritual discernment, e.g. if you have a problem you should just pray the rosary and your concern will be answered, and if not, then you must not be doing it right), and that he calls them every single day to check on them, teach, etc. She said that he had visited them initially and that her daughter got hooked. I am guessing he, maybe like the Dimonds, has an air about him that just draws a certain kind of person to him, because it's almost like this daughter, according to the lady's testimony, was enchanted and follows anything and everything he says. Next thing she knew, she said, her daughter was packing up and moving her own family to Minnesota to get a house and everything close to Crawford's congregation. At that church, according to this lady, he separates men and women and has a dress code similar to what CathInfo said. Iirc, it's blue. I asked her if it sounds like a cult, and she said it's absolutely a cult. That's pretty interesting considering that's now two people that have said this about him. It seems like where there's smoke, there's fire. She says it's like her daughter is a different person now, and that families there are basically not allowed to mingle with their families back home when they join Crawford's church, at least from what I gather. So it sounds, honestly, like a weird place."
https://www.cathinfo.com/members-only/fr-dominic-crawford/msg722190/#msg722190
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Fr. Crawford recently forbade his followers from attending the wedding of their son and brother, simply because it was with CMRI. Crawford warned his followers that any of them that went to the CMRI wedding would need to make a public abjuration in his chapel before they could receive communion again.
https://www.cathinfo.com/members-only/fr-dominic-crawford/msg729005/#msg729005
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So, the claims include: imposing a color-coded dress code, refusing holy communion to worthy communicants as a way of promoting their spiritual growth, pre-appointed and compulsory confession appointments (i.e., you are required to go to confession at a certain time and place regardless of need), teaching that everyone must fraternally correct anyone at any time under pain of sin, and requiring the faithful to not fraternize with family members who go to different mass centers, including requiring public abjuration of error for attending the weddings of family members celebrated by traditionalist priests of the CMRI.
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OP, if you're worried about detraction, maybe you can just confirm or deny if you witnessed these allegations as a member of his congregation. Or if there's anything else (specific) you think people should know. It's fair enough to ask for specifics if your message is to avoid a man who claims a priestly ministry in the Church.
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