Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Almanac 2002

by Matthew Bunson (Editor)

Our Sunday Visitor s 2001 Catholic Almanac is the source to turn to for information on virtually every subject of Catholic interest in the United States and the world. This one-of-a-kind resource book not only brings you topical events and developments of headline importance, but a sweeping variety of biblical, historical, doctrinal, and secular subjects of importance in the new millennium.

A prolific writer for over a decade, Matthew Bunson is the author or coauthor of many books. He has written several bestsellers for Our Sunday Visitor including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and John Paul II s Book of Saints.

612 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

Matthew Bunson (born 1966) is an American author of more than fifty books, a historian, professor, editor, Roman Catholic theologian, Senior Contributor for EWTN, the Catholic multimedia network, Senior Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and Faculty Chair at Catholic Distance University.
He is the author of the books Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, The Vampire Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of American Catholic History, and Pope Francis, the first English-language biography of Pope Francis in 2013.
Bunson has a B.A. in history, an M.A. in Theology, a Master of Divinity, a Doctorate in Ministry and a Ph.D. in Church History from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is on the faculty of the Catholic Distance University where he teaches Church History, including Roman Catholic-Islamic relations and Medieval and American Catholic History, and Catholic Social Teaching. He is a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.