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A Message from Our President

We trust you had a wonderful beginning to the Jubilee Year. As we begin the new semester, we continue to ponder on the meaning and consequences of being born from the heart of the Church. In the last newsletter, we reflected on our work of education as a service of love, attuned to the deepest human aspirations and leavened by the hopeful insight that God calls each of us to engage the world in our own meaningful way. Today, I would like to invite you to reflect on the university as a community of scholars, students and staff, all of whom devote our energies to research, teach, and serve present and future generations. In doing so, we lead by serving - a Christian understanding of leadership, and we live out a concrete manifestation of spiritual mercy, a work of love which the Church’s mission offers to humanity. Our online global campus provides a setting where people from the four corners of the globe can have access to and experience this service wherever they are.


As part of the Church and a Christian community of faculty, students, and staff, first and foremost we strive, despite our human frailties, to be a place to encounter Christ. This relationship elicits a desire for God and a desire to grow in the knowledge and understanding of Him and his teaching. In this way, as Pope Benedict XVI reminds us, “those who meet Christ are drawn by the very power of the Gospel to a new life characterized by all that is beautiful, good, and true; a life of Christian witness nurtured and strengthened within the community of our Lord’s disciples, the Church.” In a world, which so often lacks hope, we proclaim with confidence the hope which does not disappoint (cf. Rom 5:5). This combination of personal encounter, knowledge, and Christian witness, is integral to the service the university provides to humanity. It influences all aspects of university life and leads us to discover God as a Father who invites each of His children to respond in a free and responsible way. Our university community offers every generation the opportunity to discover the ultimate truth about his or her own life, to lift each other by example and loving service, and to shape the future through their work and contribution to science in expanding areas of knowledge.


One of these areas is emerging technologies. We want to influence positively the applications of these technologies through our new Master of Science in Prudential Design of AI and other Emerging Technologies, which we will offer this coming Fall. we will seek to show how these technologies can be advanced in humane and faithtful ways. Of course, such an approach requires dedication and perseverance. Yet, as Benedict XVI reminds us “It is not easy to make something beautiful and great of a university community’s life. It is demanding, though with Christ, everything is possible!” (Address January 21, 2008) The living faith of the university community is an especially powerful instrument of hope. We receive and transmit the riches of our Catholic traditon of faith and reason to sanctify the temporal order now and in the future. Thanks to this faithful mission of ours, Catholic International’s community continues to play the unique and indispensable role it does in Catholic Higher Education worldwide.



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In an era defined by rapid technological evolution, the Master of Science in AI and the Prudent Design of Emerging Technologies at Catholic International University responds to a pressing need in higher education: to harmonize technological innovation with the enduring principles of Christian anthropology and Natural Law. Guided by the vision of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, this program addresses the increasing fragmentation that has occurred in recent years as universities have distanced classical and contemporary philosophical study from the technical disciplines. Our program re-integrates the study of human nature into the design of technology, recognizing the person as a unified being of body and soul.


As part of Catholic International University’s mission to communicate truth and foster interior renewal in a digital world, this program will equip graduates to contribute in substantial ways in diverse fields such as healthcare, business, defense, and public policy. By coupling innovation with moral clarity, our graduates are prepared to design AI systems, create useful immersive applications that respect human integrity, and develop data solutions that serve the common good, forming a new wave of leaders who view technology not as an end in itself but as a means to further humanity’s noblest aspirations.

To Read a recent Catholic News Agency Article about this Exciting New Program:

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 To learn more about the human side of AI and Emerging Tech from Dr. Aguirre's recent Student Life Presentation:

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Catholic International University Now Offering Full Range of Career-Focused Degree Programs in Liberal Arts!

Catholic International University has added an innovative, career-focused approach to classical learning with its new Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts. In keeping with our AA in Liberal Arts and our Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Education, this degree program offers students the opportunity to specialize in a professional path, while also staying grounded in the timeless intellectual tradition which has formed history’s greatest thinkers and innovators. By integrating rigorous academics with practical career application, the program forms the whole person, equipping students to flourish as a human being as well as thrive in their unique professional vocation.


“We live in a world where we need thoughtful, wise people to lead businesses, families, and ultimately to lead our civil society. ” Remarked Dr. Ann Brodeur, Director Liberal Arts & Education, “By blending the classical liberal arts tradition with practical, career-focused instruction from our distinguished faculty, our program equips students to become well formed, effective leaders.”

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Catholic International Welcomes Faculty Member, Patty Mazariegos, MA, to new role as Spanish Program Coordinator


An educator and writer for more than two decades serving at the elementary, high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels, Patty's strong experience in developing and delivering catechetical programs will greatly benefit our Spanish Programs. Patty currently serves as an instructor for the Faith Formation Program in the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis of the Archdiocese of Washington (ADW).

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Catholic International University Receives Distinguished Raskob Foundation Grant to Support Prison Ministry Program


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CIU introduces our

2025 Annual Fund

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