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
Carlos Bladimir Corado Hernández is a priest of the diocese of Santa Ana, El Salvador. He is 31 years old and was ordained on January 7, 2017. From 2011 to 2016, he was a former student of the Bidasoa International Seminary. He has now returned to the University of Pamplona to complete his degree in Dogmatic Theology.
U.S. priest in the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Catholics account for only 10% of the population. Lutherans, Methodists and an important Amish community live side by side with Catholics in this part of the eastern United States.
During his trip to Cyprus and Greece, in his meeting with young Athenians, Pope Francis speaks to them of beauty and wonder, service and fraternity, courage and sportsmanship. And as a summary he proposes to them the courage of hope.
