Between 1972 and 1975 Salvino Caruana OSA read for his Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Theology at the Augustinian University in Rome. In 1978 Fr Caruana read for the Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) in History at the University of Malta. In 1979 he read for his Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) certificate at the New University of Malta, and between 1979 and 1982, he was teaching various subjects at St Augustine's College Pieta'. In 1982 Fr Caruana was appointed Headmaster of the same College which he directed up to 1988. Between 1988 and 1991 he read for his Licentiate in Sacred Theology, and the Diploma in Patristic Studies at the Augustinian University in Rome. In 1991 Fr Caruana commenced his lecturing activity at the Faculty of Theology, and in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta. In 1998 Fr Caruana obtained his Doctorate in Sacred Theology with a thesis summa cum laude on The Ethical Implications of Christian Life in St. Augustine's DE SERMONE DOMINI IN MONTE. In 2002 Fr Caruana was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Patrology, Faculty of Theology. Fr Salvino Caruana has also directed the Augustinian Institute: Centre For Augustinian Studies and Research – Pieta’, for these last ten years, and has since also headed a committee for the translation of some of the more renowned works of St Augustine into Maltese.

• Istitut Agostinjan. Ċentru għall-Istudji Agostinjani u Riċerka, Sena Akkademika 2010-2011 (120pp.).
• Stu Wistin: ħajja, ħidma u ħsieb. Ġabra ta’ taħdidiet li saru ġewwa l-Istitut Agostinjan 2009-2010, Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 2010 (361p.) ISBN 978-99932-0-9799) (editur).
• "Lsieni l-pinna ta’ kittieb ħafif”. Paniġierki, Omelija u Diskorsi ta’ P. Salvinu Caruana OSA STHD, Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 2010 (i-xxi/72p.) ISBN 978-99932-0-939-3.
• Il-Mara u l-Istat fit-tagħlim ta’ Stu Wistin. Ġabra ta’ taħdidiet li saru ġewwa l-Istitut Agostinjan 2007-2009, Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 2009. (320p.) ISBN 978-99932-0-725-2 (editur).
• Jiena...Wistin, Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 2008. (334p.) ISBN 978-99932-0-645-3.
• S. Possidju, Il-Ħajja ta’ Wistin, Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 2005. (227p.).
  
• Il discorso del Signore sulla montagna, in Opera Omnia di sant’Agostino, Le opere esegetiche, vol. X/2 (Introduction to the volume in the Complete Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo), Città Nuova Editrice, Roma 1997. (78p.) ISBN 88-311-9148-9.
• The Ethical Implications of Christian Life in Saint Augustine of Hippo’s De sermone Domini in monte. Abstract of the doctoral dissertation in Theology presented to the Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta, Malta 1988. (155p.).
• Erġa’ idħol ġewwa fik. L-Ispiritwalità ta’ Santu Wistin, Edizzjoni Klabb Qari Nisrani – 58, Media Centre Publications, Malta 1996. (120pp).
• Xmajjar ta’ Ilma ħaj. Siltiet mill-kitbiet ta’ Santu Wistin, Media Centre Publications, Malta 1996. (112p.).
• Int ħlaqtna għalik Mulej. Tnehid Wistin, Media Centre Publications, Malta 1995. (52p.).
• Il-Leħen u l-Kelma (De Voce et Verbo). Studju tal-predikazzjoni ta’ Santu Wistin fuq San Ġwann l-Għammied, Xewkija, Għawdex 2004. (234p.).
• Caruana, S. – Barbara, Valentin, V., Santu Wistin, It-Tagħlim Nisrani (de doctrina christiana), Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 2004 (i-lxvi/1-205p.).
• Caruana, S. – Barbara, Valentin, V., Santu Wistin, Id-diskors tal-Mulej fuq il-muntanja (de sermone Domini in monte), Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 1999 (i-lxxxv/166p.).
• Caruana, S. – Barbara, Valentin, V., Santu Wistin, Il Belt ta’ Alla (2 vol.), Provinċja Agostinjana, Malta 1996 (i-cclxxvi /1600p.).

Articles

• “Stu Wistin, l-Imperu Ruman, Ġerusalemm u Babilonja”, in Knisja 2000 22/92 (april-ġunju 2010)9-30.
• “Who converts who in the Confessions of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Variations on the theme of conuersio”, Melita Theologica 59/1 (2008) 61-70.
• “’Negotia Christianorum...”(Apologeticum 39,1-20). A Study of some salient themes of the moral life and discipline in the daily life of early Christian communities – 2nd & 3rd CE. Tertullian and the Case of North Africa”, in Melita Theologica 58/1(2007)53-67.
• “The Sequela Christi theme in Saint Augustine of Hippo, and in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Augustinus revisited”, in Living Theology. Studies on Karl Rahner, Yves Congar, Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City, 2007, 195-205. (ISBN 88-209-7874-4).
• “’Scripturarum capere sacramentum…’. Mystery and Sacrament in Pope St. Leo The Great’s Sermon 66”, in Melita Theologica 56/1(2005)61-92.
• “Augustine’s exegesis of Matthew 5-7 and the Ethics of Christian Life in De sermone Domini in monte”, in In Joyful and Serene Service of the Lord’s Word. In Memory of Revd Dr. Joseph Calleja OFM Conv., Melita Theologica Supplementary Series vol.5 (2004) 69-120.
  
• “'Born of the Virgin Mary’. According to St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Justin Martyr and St. Irenaeus of Lyons”, in Melita Theologica 55/2 (2004) 97-107.
• “The Ethical Implications of Christian Life in Saint Augustine of Hippo’s De sermone Domini in monte”, in Melita Theologica xlix/2 (1998) 51-70.
• “Saint Augustine Lecture. University of Malta 1994”, in Melita Theologica xlix/1 (1998) 65-88.
• “The Role of Faculties of Theology in face of Modern Identity Claims”, in Melita Theologica xlviii/2 (1997) 3-20.