Through and beyond our academic and pastoral provision, we seek to give students the opportunity to face the question of their personal faith and to grow in virtue - the power to accomplish moral good. We aim to give a thorough grounding in the fullness of Catholic tradition and the sacramental life of the Church. We seek to offer both an education in the practice of the faith, in prayer and worship, and an intellectual formation which is rooted in the rich inheritance of the teaching of the Church. We are convinced that every mature human being is both a free and responsible individual and a member of society who has come to accept the covenant of mutual obligation inherent in a civilised order.
Civilised order is founded on virtue.
Equally, we hold that every mature Christian has grown into a personal religious faith and into personal acceptance of the new Covenant offered by God and lived out in the Church. We believe that this can only be learnt within he Christian Community, informed by Christian virtue, by faith, hope and love. We offer to each student in the school the opportunity to grow up with the encouragement and intellectual freedom to make responsible decisions over his religious faith. Catholic students are offered a full religious education in the Roman Catholic faith. Their parents have come to Ampleforth in this expectation.