President & Editor in Chief, America Media

Matt Malone was America magazine’s youngest editor in chief when he began his tenure there in 2012. His writing has appeared in numerous national and international publications and his work and ideas have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post among others. He is the author of Catholiques Sans Etiquette, a book concerning the church and the political, which was published in 2014 by Salvator Press in Paris. He had previously served as special assistant and speechwriter to U.S. Representative Martin T. Meehan (D-MA) from 1995 to 1997 and from 1997 to 2002 as the founding deputy director of MassINC, an independent political think tank, and co-publisher of Common Wealth, its award-winning review of politics, ideas, and civic life. In 2006 he received the top Catholic Press Association award for essay writing.

Father Malone entered the Society of Jesus in 2002. He was ordained a priest on June 9, 2012, by Edward Cardinal Egan, late Archbishop of New York. He received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst; an MA from Fordham University; a bachelor of divinity (honors, first class) from the University of London; and a baccalaureate in sacred theology (summa cum laude with the congratulations of the board of examiners) from the Catholic University of Louvain. He was a founding member of REMUS (Religion, Mimesis and Society), an interdisciplinary research group at Heythrop College dedicated to the thought of René Girard. He is a member of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion and is chaplain to the New York Press Club.

Father Malone joined the CMMB Board of Directors in 2016 and serves on the Advancement Committee.