About
The Kateri Institute for Catholic Studies offers a home for faculty, staff, and students at the University of Michigan to integrate their studies with the Catholic intellectual tradition. It fosters an atmosphere of friendship and intellectual exploration in a university setting. Its activities include seminars, lectures, symposia, lunch discussions, book clubs, film series, and sponsored masses. The institute is named in honor of the Catholic saint Kateri Tekakwitha.​​ The Kateri Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Michigan and located in the Diocese of Lansing. ​
The Kateri Institute is proud to represent the University of Michigan in the In Lumine Network. In Lumine is building a national movement by providing essential resources and a forum for collaboration to selected Catholic institutes at non-Catholic colleges and universities across the country. In Lumine ensures that students and faculty at non-Catholic colleges and universities across the country have access to the Catholic intellectual tradition by supporting Catholic institutes like ours, and fostering the collaboration and sharing of best practices across the network.