Recently, on October 2, 2014, the Assumptionist-sponsored daily newspaper La Croix published its 40,000th edition. Having celebrated its 130^th anniversary last year (it was founded as a daily in 1883), La Croix today has a circulation of over 100,000. Although Fr. d'Alzon himself laid the foundations for La Croix, it was his first disciples, Fr. François Picard and Fr. Vincent de Paul Bailly, who actually oversaw its birth as a daily newspaper. They described it as "openly and unabashedly Catholic" and oriented in large part to a general readership, although there was a special edition for a more intellectual public. What is remarkable in the journalistic world is that La Croix has never changed its name nor its sponsors and has maintained its fundamental identity as a Catholic daily, one of the very few in the world not operated under episcopal direction.

Over the years the newspaper developed and expanded its reach by covering stories of import both for the Church and for society in general. Today La Croix is considered one of the major contributors to French public opinion and its editorial staff provides a much-appreciated point of view on a wide variety of issues.

Over the years, La Croix was blessed with a series of talented and passionate editors-in-chief, some lay (Bruno Frappat), some Assumptionist (Merklen, Gabel, Wenger, Chenu). In 2011 Yves Pitette wrote a comprehensive and enlightening history of the paper. He congratulates these great figures in the history of La Croix for their ability to adjust its mission and direction with the ever-changing challenges of the world and the Church.