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The mission of the CARF Foundation

To pray for the diocesan seminarians and priests; to spread their good name throughout the world; and to promote their integral formation in Rome and Pamplona.

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.

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Bequests and wills

The future of the Church depends on you.

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Annual Report

Learn about the activities of the CARF Foundation

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Comprehensive training to support vocations around the world.

Thanks to generous people like you, candidates can complete their academic, theological, human and spiritual formation in universities and seminaries in Rome and Pamplona.

Serving the Church

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.

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131 countries send candidates to universities and training centers

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134 beneficiaries have been ordained bishops since 1989.
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2.170 students trained in 2023.

Universities supported by the CARF Foundation

The social action board and its volunteers' assistance

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27/05/2022
Mr. Carlos López Bonifacio

This priest of the diocese of Huancavelica, located in the Andean mountain range of Peru, the poorest area of the country. The vocation of Don Carlos López Bonifacio is closely linked to music, since it was what attracted him to the Church since he was a child and made him know this call of God. Now, as a priest, he teaches numerous children through a choir that is constantly growing and with which they address God in Spanish and Quechua, the languages of his people, and in Latin, the language of the Church.

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23/05/2022
New book by author Don Ramiro Pellitero Iglesias

Ramiro Pellitero's new book, Education and Christian Humanism: A Contribution of Beauty and Hope, was published last November.

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19/05/2022
Rosa María, from Mexico and her vocation as a "missionary communicator".

Rosa María Ordaz (León, Mexico, 1963) is a former student of the Faculty of Social and Institutional Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome). She is currently a journalist and works as a volunteer in various humanitarian associations. In this interview, she tells us about her vocation as a "missionary communicator.

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