American named to Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
August 13, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV today named Francesco Cesareo, the retired president of Assumption University in Massachusetts, as a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Science.
The Pontiff also named Umberto Longo, an Italian scholar, and Anna Barańska, a Polish scholar, to the committee.
Venerable Pius XII established the committee in 1954. Since 2023, Father Marek Inglot, S.J., has served as the committee’s president.
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