Crux was launched in September 2014, as part of a project by The Boston Globe to sponsor multiple specialized websites.
[2] Crux featured deep coverage of the Holy See and employed a Vatican correspondent in its six-person editorial staff.
[4] Allen, together with Inés San Martín, today Rome Bureau Chief of Crux,[5] and Shannon Levitt, associate editor,[6] were the original founders of Crux, as he has referred to the news outlet after The Boston Globe decided to pull the plug.
[10] Crux's news reports have been quoted in numerous media, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
[11][10][12] 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.