This Brazilian priest is young but has a fundamental mission in a very poor diocese on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and where the Church has suffered greatly from the tensions that for decades existed within it during the post-conciliar period.
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.
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This Brazilian priest is young but has a fundamental mission in a very poor diocese on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and where the Church has suffered greatly from the tensions that for decades existed within it during the post-conciliar period.
Cleyver Josué Gómez Jiménez is a seminarian from the Diocese of Punto Fijo, Venezuela. He is 31 years old and is currently studying theology at the Bidasoa International Seminary in Pamplona. Cleyver talks to us about the problems that the Venezuelan people continue to suffer, religious freedom and the dreams of young people. And finally, he makes a suggestion to the benefactors and friends of CARF.
This seminarian, born in Venezuela, in a village called Casigua el Cubo, had a happy childhood and was taken with the call of God thanks to his closeness to the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Today he is studying theology in Rome, thanks to the benefactors and CARF.
