The shockwaves continued in Boston and, more than a decade later, The Globe began a website — Crux (Latin for “cross”) — to cover Catholic news. However, Crux quickly showed that the news was there, the readers were there, but the dollars didn't add up — yet. Allen got the green light to create an independent Crux, which launched on April 1, 2016. His death on Jan. 22, after a long battle with cancer, left a strategic hole in Catholic life. We believe the Church, for all of its undeniable failures and challenges, is fundamentally a force for good in the world.