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
Otto Fernando Arana Mont es un seminarista de 31 años de Guatemala (diócesis de Santiago). Estudia Teología en el Seminario Internacional Bidasoa, en Pamplona.
En esta entrevista nos cuenta su vocación, las necesidades apostólicas de su país que será declarado en marzo de 2022 como “Capital Iberoamericana pro-vida” y, por último, su experiencia en España.
Belvy Delphane Diandaga is a priest of the Diocese of Brazzaville, in the Republic of Congo. He was born in the same city of Brazzaville in 1985 and is currently in Rome pursuing a degree in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, thanks to a scholarship granted by CARF - Centro Academico Romano Foundation. He tells us his story, which, as he himself says, is a love story.
50th anniversary of the death of Italian journalist Dino Buzzati, author of the acclaimed novel The Desert of the Tartars, "chronicle of a hopeless wait".
