Dr. Matthew Bunson

Dr. Matthew Bunson is Vice President and Editorial Director of EWTN News. In this role, he guides the editorial content of EWTN's global news media platforms in seven languages, including print, digital, television, and radio news programming.

For the last thirty-five years, Bunson has been active in journalism, Catholic Social Communications, and teaching including writing, editing, and lecturing on variety of topics related to the papacy, Church history, and Catholic culture. He is the award-winning author or co-author of fifty-nine books including the award-winning Pope Leo XIV, Portrait of the First American Pope, the first English-language biography of Pope Leo XIV.

He is also a professor at Catholic International University where he teaches Church History, Catholic Social Communications, and Catholic Social Teachings.

Bunson joined EWTN in 2016 and has served as Senior Contributor, Senior Editor for the National Catholic Register, and Washington Bureau Chief and Executive Editor. In 2023, he was named Vice President and Editorial Director of EWTN News.

In addition to his duties for EWTN News, he developed EWTN’s award-winning documentary series, The Doctors of the Church, is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and is a Knight Commander with Star in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Bunson was born in Germany and grew up in Hawaii. He and his wife Bonny, an attorney, live in Washington, D.C.

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