Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 12, 2025 / 17:07 pm

Here’s a roundup of some of the latest Catholic education news:

Catholic University Press will exclusively publish Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral dissertation

The Catholic University of America has secured exclusive English-language editorial rights to Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral dissertation, “The Office and Authority of the Local Prior in the Order of St. Augustine.”

The book will be available in print and Kindle editions in October, according to an Aug. 11 press release , with a foreword by Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, also known as the Angelicum, where the Holy Father defended his dissertation in 1987.

“While the future pontiff’s dissertation focuses on the role of

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