 He was made Doctor of Humane Letters, "honoris causa", by La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on May 9, 2004.Luistro entered the De La Salle Scholasticate (the center for academic training of De La Salle Brothers) in Manila on April 1979, and received the religious habit on October 1981 at the La Salle Novitiate in Lipa.He professed his first religious vows on October 1982, and his final vows on May 1988.