Matthew E. Bunson

For the last twenty-five years, Dr. Matthew E. Bunson has been active in the area of Catholic Social Communications, including writing, editing and lecturing on a variety of topics related to Church history, the papacy, and Catholic culture.

The Senior Correspondent for Our Sunday Visitor and a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, he is the author or co-author of over fifty books including: The Encyclopedia of Catholic History, The Pope Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Saints, John Paul II’s Book of Saints, Papal Wisdom, All Shall Be Well and The Angelic Doctor, The Life and World of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Since 1997, he has served as general editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Almanac. In 2010, he was named editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s The Catholic Answer Magazine. In 2013, he was invested into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and authored Pope Francis, the first biography of the new pope in the English language. He is also the co-author of the recently published Encyclopedia of U.S. Catholic History.

In addition, Bunson serves on the faculty of the Catholic Distance University in Virginia where he teaches courses and seminars on Western Civilization, Church History and Catholic-Islamic Dialogue. He has also served as a special consultant to USA Today and has appeared as a guest on many television and radio programs, including MSNBC, Fox News, CNN and Relevant Radio. Aside from his Doctor of Ministry degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation, Bunson holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, an M.A. in theology and a Master of Divinity degree. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies for a Ph.D. in Church History.