The Vatican's daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has published a moving tribute to John Allen Jr., Crux's founder and editor, who died aged 61 after a four-year struggle with cancer. Crux is a specialized website that offers English-speaking readers, notably those in the United States, information on the Holy See and the Church. "John", the article reads, "was able to recount and interpret both the internal affairs of the Vatican and the Church (for example, the emergence of the scandal of abuse of minors) and the role of the Holy See and its diplomacy in international events, particularly those involving the United States. In every article, John combined rigor and careful attention to sources with interpretive frameworks, analysis, and context, and he insisted on using quotations “on the record,” always accompanied by full names. Another defining feature of his work was that he never took anything for granted and therefore never wrote only for insiders: he knew how to speak to his audience—not composed solely of Catholics, nor only of believers. Even when one disagreed with the conclusions of his analyses, they were always worth reading, because John explained the complex reality of the Holy See without trivializing it. John had the joy of seeing elected as Successor of Peter the first American in the history of the Catholic Church, whom he knew and spent time with as well, thanks also to Elise, a Vatican correspondent whom he married six years ago and the author of a biography of Leo XIV, and who cared for him during this difficult period of illness".