The CARF Foundation (acronym that stands for Centro Academico Romano Fundación) promotes activities of a cultural nature, aimed at the promotion and development of the humanities in all its manifestations, and, primarily, the specific formation received by seminarians, diocesan priests and religious of the Catholic Church.
We believe that it is possible to improve people's daily lives through the integral formation of young men with a vocation to serve through the priesthood. For this reason, the CARF Foundation, thanks to its benefactors, contributes financially so that seminarians, diocesan priests and religious from all over the world can receive a solid academic, theological, human and spiritual preparation.
Thanks to generous people like you, candidates can complete their academic, theological, human and spiritual formation in universities and seminaries in Rome and Pamplona.
Each year, more than 800 bishops from around the world apply for grants to help them train their students to become bishops. PUSC and in the UNAVMost vocations today are born in African or American countries, which lack the means.
131 countries send candidates to universities and training centers
Daniele Bonanni is a young seminarian of the Missionary Fraternity of St. Charles Borromeo, who emphasizes his vocation of friendship with Jesus. He is in his third year of the Bachelor of Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross thanks to a scholarship from the CARF Foundation, which helps seminarians of this reality of the Church to be formed as future priests and missionaries. He defines it this way: "Friendship with Jesus makes our life flourish".
After two years of pandemic, finally the CARF Foundation was able to celebrate its traditional meeting with benefactors and seminarians of the Bidasoa International Seminary (Pamplona). An endearing ceremony, full of fraternal affection, where experiences are crossed, a Eucharist that elevates you to Heaven is lived and the show of the students of Bidasoa is enjoyed. Also, the backpacks of sacred vessels are delivered.
According to Guardini, the presupposition for the growth of the moral life, that is, of maturity in values, is the acceptance of oneself. To accept oneself, the people around us, the time in which we live (cf. for what follows R. Guardini, Una ética para nuestro tiempo, Madrid 1977, pp. 140ff.).
