Biography
John Mallon received his bachelor's degree, Cum Laude, in theology from Boston College in 1989, where he was nominated to the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. While at Boston College he often wrote articles in the student papers in defense of the Catholic Faith. During the 1989-90 school year he and a friend took over the conservative campus newspaper, The Observer of Boston College, and transformed it into an orthodox Roman Catholic student newspaper which received national acclaim. This brought him to the attention of officials at Franciscan University of Steubenville who offered him The University's Disciples of Christ Scholarship for a masterıs degree in theology, which he earned in 1993. In 1996 John received the Alumni Citizenship Award from Franciscan University in recognition of his contributions to civic life.
The story of his conversion appears in the book Spiritual Journeys, published by the Daughters of St. Paul. From 1994 to 1997 he served as Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and editor of the archdiocesan newspaper the Sooner Catholic. Under Johnıs tenure the paper won 11 journalism awards during his three year tenure (1994-97) despite his never having run a diocesan paper before.
After that he served as an editorial consultant and a columnist for The Daily Oklahoman and later as a speech writer and communications director for Lieutenant Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and attended the 2002 U.S. Bishops' meeting in Dallas at the invitation of, and as a consultant on Catholic issues to then-Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating.
From 1997 to the present he has been Contributing Editor for Inside the Vatican magazine, where he has a monthly column, Status Ecclesiae. His work has also appeared in The Washington Times, OpinionJournal.com, The National Review Online, WorldNetDaily, the Boston Globe, Catholic World Report, AD 2000 (Australia), The National Catholic Register, Crisis, The Boston Pilot, Catholic Online, The Fact Is.org, The Messenger of St. Anthony (Italy), Columbia magazine, This Rock, Hearth (now Canticle), and The New Oxford Review. His articles have been translated into German, French and Spanish.
His book contributions include Spiritual Journeys: Towards the Fullness of Faith; The Madison Center Common Sense Guide to American Colleges 1991-1992; Operation Rescue: A Challenge to the Nation's Conscience, by Philip Lawler; Their Faith has Touched Us: The Legacies of Three Young Oklahoma City Bombing Victims, by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda.
A partial archive of his writing may be seen at the Catholic website, PetersVoice.com (http://www.johnmallon.net), and he maintains Mallon's Media Watch, a Blog commenting on media coverage of the Catholic Church. (http://mallonsmedia.blogspot.com/)
