ABOUT US
Kenneth Fisher, President
Mission Statement
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc. (CRCOA) is a lay organization, with many religious members, that is dedicated to promoting orthodox Catholic teaching and fighting heterodoxy and corruption within Religious Education Congresses, retreats, the Catholic education establishment, and the Catholic hierarchy.
Our organization concerns itself with anything or anyone whose teaching is contrary to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church and the Papacy, especially as it is associated with the American laity and clergy.
Our purpose is to watch and guard against false teachings, half truths, and bad example, among the laity and the clergy. We try to alert the faithful through the written and spoken word as well as through good example by our peaceful and prayerful rallies and demonstrations, and we further implore St. Nicholas Owen, Martyr, the Jesuit Religious Brother who built so many hiding places for persecuted priests in England during the penal persecution to pray for us and guide us.
CRCOA is a proud affiliate of the Catholic Media Coalition.
Our Philosophy
While we accept the authority of the Holy Father and all bishops in union with him, we will not sit idly by, nor blindly follow, while many in the above mentioned institutions allow the Holy Catholic Church to be torn apart and assaulted by the forces of Modernism, Syncretism, Heresy, and the gross immorality of some of its clergy. As parents and teachers, we will not allow our Catholic youth to be robbed of their faith or have their innocence destroyed in the name of "tolerance", "ecumenism", "diversity" or any other politically correct ideology of the day.
We object to individuals or groups of individuals being given access to Catholic schools, churches, conferences and Church property to promote any belief, teaching, or idea contrary to Catholic teaching as defined by two thousand years of Tradition and Church teaching. We expect every Catholic priest to follow the disciplines of the Catholic Church as he solemnly vowed to do. We expect every bishop to do all he can to safeguard the souls of our children by exercising his authority to ensure proper teaching within Catholic schools and parish religion programs. We insist that Catholic colleges and universities either teach the True Faith or cease calling themselves Catholic.
We object to any priest treating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as his personal possession by adding, changing, or removing any part of the Mass on his own authority. Furthermore, we assert that the right of every Catholic priest to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass must be recognized, and we consider it a grave scandal that such a right is not recognized while at the same time countless liturgical and theological novelties are promoted by many in the hierarchy.
We will do everything within our power to undo the last thirty-plus years of watered-down Catholicism that has been foisted upon us. We will not separate ourselves from the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church; we will stand and fight and demand what is rightfully ours. In that regard, we insist at this time in history that those in positions of authority in the Church proclaim loudly the infallibly defined dogma that "outside the Church there is no salvation", as that dogma has been taught and explained by the Church for centuries.
We insist that the Catholic media, especially diocesan newspapers, present authentically Catholic perspectives on social issues and current events and cease being used as forums for heresy and blasphemy.
We express our love for the clergy, and refuse to be silent while holy priests and nuns are persecuted by the modernist establishment holding power within the layers of bureaucracy existing in chancery offices throughout much of the world. At the same time, we refuse to be blind to the fact that a pattern of gross immorality exists among many religious, and that among their victims have been children, and that the hierarchy has for years covered up and enabled these predators to attack God's children. For this we cry out to heaven for justice, and pledge to our last breath to seek out and expose these predators.
We acknowledge Jesus Christ as our Lord and King, and we recognize that He established His Church as a hierachical one with St. Peter and his successors as her supreme heads or Pontiffs.
We call upon St. Athanasius the Great as our inspiration and guide in these very trying times for the Faith, and we ask he who suffered greatly under misguided fellow hierarchy to guide us in our mission.