Hasitha and Francisco José are two seminarians from Bidasoa. They are grateful for the help of the benefactors: "To train a priest is to train a people".
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
Hasitha and Francisco José are two seminarians from Bidasoa. They are grateful for the help of the benefactors: "To train a priest is to train a people".
Don Sebastian Wydrowski is part of the Diocese of Pelplin, located in northern Poland, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. This see was erected in 1243 and currently has more than 700,000 Catholics and more than 500 diocesan priests.
Priest of the Diocese of Santa Ana, El Salvador. Don Daniel Mejía Fuentes was born 30 years ago in the city that gives its name to this episcopal see, the second most important of this small country after the capital.
