... to Pope St. John Paul II’s summons to the New Evangelization during his 1993 celebration of World Youth Day in Denver. Inspired by the Holy Father’s challenge to bear bold witness to Christ, a group of Catholic scholars and educators founded the Augustine Institute in 2005, as a graduate school dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel in the modern world.

our community and graduate school have grown and are growing still. We are adding more faculty; building a new library, a bigger chapel, and a better student lounge; and developing more classes in Greek and philosophy.
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While our foundation is that of a flourishing and in-person graduate school, we were one of the first institutions of our kind to embrace new digital tools to expand our reach in support of the New Evangelization with distance-education degrees and courses.

students have full-time jobs—often in ecclesial or apostolic settings—and many are caring for children or other dependents. Such students would find it difficult or impossible to pursue an MA in a traditional, on-campus program. Distance education allows them to flourish in their studies without moving to Denver or giving up jobs or family responsibilities.