Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church - Crescent City (CA)

1 /5 Star: I cant belive have rude heartlessly I was treated on the phone. A local teacher calling for help. If you didnt have help you could just say so and instead accused me of being a scammer and tell me I would act like I was sad. It is sad that you offered zero condolence no even a single kind word. That is not how a man of God should talk to a woman regardless if you have been scammed by others in the past.

4 /5 Hunter Dunne: Beautiful church, much more than I expected. Very glad I stopped by for Mass. As others say, know that everything is very fast paced

5 /5 Steven Plourde: Love the commitment to the traditional Latin Mass -- pithy homilies with contemporary messages tied to the scriptures-- lotsa young families who homeschool their children & raise them to be solid Christians --

1 /5 John Brossart: I hate having to leave such a negative review for St. Josephs church, but attending mass there was honestly the worst experience I have had in church in decades. We attended a week day low mass on 12/27/23. I was looking forward to participating in a Latin liturgy when we were visiting Crescent City as it is something that is not often available at parishes near my home. Unfortunately, the priest who celebrated the mass made the experience virtually intolerable. First, he spoke so fast and so indistinctly as to make it impossible to follow the prayers. (Granted, what Latin I learned when I was an alter boy is pretty rusty, but I would guess I am not alone in that.) Second and more troubling, his homily did not address the readings for the day and did not address the love and warmth of God for us sinners. Instead, it was a diatribe against, receiving communion in the hand, against persons in bad marriages, against giving blessings to persons unable to receive communion, and against Protestants of all stripes. To frost the cake of negativity, he didnt just constructively disagree with people, he apparently felt the need to ridicule anyone who did not see Catholicism exactly as he did.

1 /5 elizabeth Jones: My one experience of attending here was deeply shocking. The priest not only did not take his homily from the readings but spoke with bizarre vitriol against protestantism. He included, with evident relish, that Martin Luther was burning in hell. I dont know what he said after that, because my husband and I walked out. We had never heard anything like that in any Catholic church. We were quite shaken. We considered attending the Spanish Mass, but found that he officiates that as well.