{{Short description|Independent news website focused on the Catholic Church}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Crux | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | motto = | type = Online newspaper | format = | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = The Boston Globe<br/>John L. Allen Jr. | publisher = | president = | editor = John L. Allen Jr. | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = {{start date and age|2014|09}} | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = | publishing_country = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = {{URL|https://cruxnow.com/}} | free = }} '''''Crux''''' is an online newspaper that focuses on news related to the Catholic Church. From September 2014 until March 2016, it was owned by ''The Boston Globe''. Since April 2016, it has been independently owned.

==History== ''Crux'' was launched in September 2014, as part of a project by ''The Boston Globe'' to sponsor multiple specialized websites.<ref name=nieman-unbundle>{{cite web |author=Justin Ellis |title=Embrace the unbundling: ''The Boston Globe'' is betting it'll be stronger split up than unified |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/embrace-the-unbundling-the-boston-globe-is-betting-itll-be-stronger-split-up-than-unified/ |publisher=Nieman Journalism Lab |accessdate=August 13, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Globe_2014.07.31">{{cite news |author1=Meredith Goldstein |author2=Mark Shanahan |title=Margery Eagan leaves the Boston Herald, joins Crux |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2014/07/30/margery-eagan-leaves-boston-herald-joins-crux/nI1cP83YBgOVs9xFhhqwGI/story.html |accessdate=July 31, 2014 |work=The Boston Globe |date=July 31, 2014}}</ref><ref name="CruxAbout">{{citation |title=About Crux |journal=Crux |url=http://cruxnow.com/about/ |language=English |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314092306/https://cruxnow.com/about/ |archive-date=March 14, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It covered the Catholic Church and numerous subjects concerning life as a Catholic in the United States, including advice columns.<ref name="Globe_2014.07.31" /> ''Crux'' featured deep coverage of the Holy See and employed a Vatican correspondent in its six-person editorial staff. Its associate editor was John L. Allen Jr., a long-time and well-known Vatican watcher.<ref name="Crux_2016.04.01" /> Allen, together with Inés San Martín, today Rome Bureau Chief of Crux,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cruxnow.com/author/ines-sanmartin/|title=Ines San Martin|last=|first=|date=|website=Crux|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref> and Shannon Levitt, associate editor,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cruxnow.com/author/shannon-levitt/|title=Shannon Levitt, Author at Crux|website=Crux|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-01-16}}</ref> were the original founders of Crux, as he has referred to the news outlet after The Boston Globe decided to pull the plug.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/cruxs-corporate-resurrection-how-the-catholic-news-site-will-live-on-beyond-the-boston-globe/|title=Crux's "corporate resurrection": How the Catholic news site will live on beyond The Boston Globe|website=Nieman Lab|access-date=2020-01-16}}</ref>

On March 31, 2016, ''The Globe'' ended its association with ''Crux'', citing a failure to bring in expected ad revenue, and transferred ownership of the website to the ''Crux'' staff.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Emma|last1=Green|accessdate=2019-11-09|title=The Boston Globe Bails on Crux and Religion Journalism|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-boston-globe-bails-on-cruxemdashand-religion-journalism/473421/|date=11 March 2016|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> With Allen as the new editor, ''Crux'' received sponsorship from the Knights of Columbus and several Catholic dioceses.<ref name="CruxAbout" /><ref name="Crux_2016.04.01">{{citation |title=Editor's note on day one of 'Crux 2.0' |author=John L. Allen Jr. |date=April 1, 2016 |journal=Crux |url=http://cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/01/editors-note-on-day-one-of-crux-2-0/ |language=English |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106204844/https://cruxnow.com/church/2016/04/01/editors-note-on-day-one-of-crux-2-0/ |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Crux_2017.03.31">{{citation |title=An editor's note on Crux's 'Independence Day' |author=John L. Allen Jr. |date=March 31, 2017 |journal=Crux |url=http://cruxnow.com/analysis/2017/03/31/editors-note-cruxs-independence-day/ |language=English |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109060421/https://cruxnow.com/analysis/2017/03/31/editors-note-cruxs-independence-day/ |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As of 2018, Allen remains the editor.<ref name="NYTimes_2018.04.30" />

''Crux'''s news reports have been quoted in numerous media, including ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post''.<ref>{{citation |title=Cardinal Law and the U.S.-Rome Sex Abuse Divide |author=Jason Horowitz |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 20, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/world/europe/cardinal-bernard-law.html |language=English |accessdate=August 13, 2018}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes_2018.04.30">{{citation |title=Cardinal George Pell to Stand Trial on Historical Sex Offenses |author=Adam Baidawi |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 30, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/australia/cardinal-george-pell-trial-sexual-abuse.html |language=English |accessdate=August 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Pope Francis did not claim hell does not exist, Vatican says |author=Lori Johnston |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 30, 2018 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/03/29/vatican-denies-report-that-says-pope-francis-believes-hell-does-not-exist/ |language=English |accessdate=August 13, 2018}}</ref> Writing in the Italian news magazine ''L'Espresso'', journalist Sandro Magister described ''Crux'' as "the leading Catholic information portal in the United States and perhaps in the world."<ref>{{cite news |title=Homosexual Priests and Bishops. Neither "Healthy" Nor "Faithful" |author=Sandro Magister |newspaper=L'Espresso |date=August 25, 2018 |url=http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2018/08/25/homosexual-priests-and-bishops-neither-healthy-nor-faithful/ |language=English |accessdate=August 26, 2018}}</ref>

==See also== * ''The Boston Globe''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{official website|https://cruxnow.com/}}

Category:American religious websites Category:Newspapers established in 2014 Category:Catholic newspapers published in the United States