The Aquinas Institute

The Aquinas Institute is a mission of the Diocese of Trenton to the Roman Catholic community at Princeton University. Our mission is to serve the spiritual, sacramental, intellectual, and pastoral needs of the campus. We do this through helping each other deepen our relationship with Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church which he instituted.

The Aquinas Institute, which was founded in 1928, provides a religious home for 1200+ undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to many members of the faculty and staff at the university. There is a strong, vibrant Catholic presence on campus, as Catholics are the largest self-identified religious group among students at Princeton.