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
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.
Maritain knew how to demonstrate that faith does not limit or imprison the intelligence. On the contrary, it stimulates it and opens it to broader horizons.
In this springtime, the Gospel presents us with a country scene: a flock grazing in green pastures, and a man tending them. It is an ancient image in the cultures of the Near East: presenting the king as a "shepherd", that is, as someone who guides in search of food, and protects his people.
