Crux Archives

Editor’s note: Crux announces a new “Prime Directive”
- Commentary
- August 14, 2017
Up to this point, Crux has never had formal editorial policies, because we’re a small enough operation I didn’t think we needed them. As of today, however, I’m implementing Policy #1. For “Star Trek” fans, you might think of this as our new “Prime Directive”: Yes to vigorous discussion, no to personal attacks.
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An apology for needless offense — and how to disagree better
- Commentary
- August 12, 2017
Recently I used the term “convert neurosis” as a metaphor, and then — because we journalists feel compelled to substantiate our assertions with good evidence — listed a number of people as examples. That offended some, and many others on their behalf. For that I want to apologize. I shouldn’t have given names, and I shouldn’t have used the term “neurosis”. Sorry.
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An editor’s note on Crux’s ‘Independence Day’
- Analysis
- March 31, 2017
April 1 marks Crux’s “Independence Day,” meaning the one-year anniversary of our life as an independent news agency no longer part of the Boston Globe. While much has changed, one thing remains constant: Crux’s determination, in an era of ideologically and politically aligned news, to lean neither to the left nor the right, but to embody the classic Catholic both/and.
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Austen Ivereigh to join Crux team as contributing editor

Longtime Crux contributor Austen Ivereigh, author of the most authoritative English-language biography of Pope Francis and the co-founder of Catholic Voices, will join the Crux team as contributing editor, assisting with management of the site and helping to set editorial direction.

‘Crux of the Matter’ radio show debuts today on the Catholic Channel

Live from Krakow, Poland, John Allen and Ines San Martin of Crux debut “The Crux of the Matter” radio show on the “Catholic Channel”, Sirius XM 129. Today they’re talking to George Weigel, papal biographer and World Youth Day expert, along with volunteers, behind-the-scenes gurus, and pilgrims.