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With a key add and in-house moves, Crux is bigger and better
- Aug 1, 2018
With an important addition to our team and two in-house promotions, Crux keeps getting bigger and better.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Editor’s note: Crux announces two new members of the family
- Aug 21, 2017
Crux announces the addition of two new members to our family. Christopher White joins us as our new national correspondent, based in New York but also spending time in Washington, tracking the interplay between faith and public life — including the intersection between Pope Francis and President Donald Trump. Killian Chimtom is our new Africa correspondent, based in Cameroon but covering the whole continent, bringing stories of the world’s most rapidly growing Catholic continent.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Syrian prelate sees Holy Week as time of restoring life
- Apr 14, 2017
In these blessed days, Lent comes to an end and we are on the threshold of the Easter Celebration, a feast that marks the passage from a life of slavery and dependence to a new life in the promised land, a land of freedom and of divine graces, which we have inherited on the day of the resurrection. Now we are beginning to live Holy Week with its celebrations and prayers which the Church has established as a help and a means to climb up to Golgotha, in order to accompany Christ on his painful journey to His crucifixion and burial, and the arrival of the dawn of deliverance.

By Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart

Pope Francis offers way to recognize marriages by traditionalist group
- Apr 4, 2017
The Vatican has announced a way for the marriages of the traditionalist Society St. Pius X – which is not in full communion with the rest of the Church – to have their marriages recognized by the Church. It is the latest move in a decades-long attempt to bring the group into full unity.

By Charles Collins

What Prince Charles might want to discuss with Pope Francis

Apr 4, 2017

Pope Francis will welcome this afternoon Prince Charles of Wales in the Vatican. The two have many issues in common: From the protection of the environment and persecuted Christians, to their reservations about the rise of scapegoating populism. But Austen Ivereigh suggests the two might want to talk about an issue they both consider important, but on which they might not always see eye to eye.

By Austen Ivereigh

An editor’s note on Crux’s ‘Independence Day’

Mar 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.

By John L. Allen Jr.