Bellarmine exists primarily to provide an excellence in education that is more than academic. This education of the whole person is activated by an Ignatian vision that is at its core religious. Religious education at Bellarmine begins with the awareness that all members of the Bellarmine community are religious educators, with parents as the primary educators. Within this community of faith, and following in the footsteps of Ignatius, the Religious Education Department challenges the student to more consciously reflect on their lives and the world in light of Catholic Christianity. In doing so, Bellarmine hopes the student will ultimately be more integrated (whole), more discerning, and more able to choose to be “a Man/Woman for Others” under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The curriculum has three levels of presentation: as a call to be formed by the Spirit of Jesus, as a way to be informed about the Catholic Christianity (as articulated by the US Catholic Bishops’ Framework for Religious Instruction), and ultimately, as a means of transformation “for the greater glory of God”.