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The mission of the CARF Foundation

To pray for seminarians and diocesan priests; to spread their good name throughout the world; and to promote their integral formation.

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.

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Sacred vessels

To reach the farthest corner of the Earth

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Bequests and wills

The future of the Church depends on you.

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Annual Report

Learn about the activities of the CARF Foundation

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Excellent training to support vocations worldwide.

Thanks to generous people like you, candidates can complete their academic, theological, human and spiritual formation in universities and seminaries in Rome and Pamplona.

Serving the Church

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.

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131 countries send candidates to universities and training centers

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134 beneficiaries have been ordained bishops since 1989.
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2,170 beneficiaries trained by 2023.

Universities supported by the CARF Foundation

The social action board and its volunteers' assistance

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3 prayers to St. Expeditus: money, urgent causes and love

St. Expeditus is the saint of just and urgent causes. Every April 19, Christians remember his martyrdom and death. He is venerated by thousands of people who on that day, in particular, pray to Saint Expeditus.

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10/01/2022
Rodrigo Luiz dos Santos, from Brazil: journalist, missionary, husband and father

Rodrigo Luiz dos Santos, from Brazil, is a lay missionary of the Catholic movement Canção Nova, a Catholic charismatic community founded by Father Jonas Abib and recognized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as a private international association. He is 40 years old and is currently director of journalism at Canção Nova de São Paulo and a presenter. He is married and father of two children.

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07/01/2022
Mr. Ángel Josué Loredo

Ángel Josué Loredo García is 31 years old and just a few weeks ago he finished his studies at the University of Navarra, where, thanks to a CARF scholarship, he studied a Bachelor's Degree in Morals and Spirituality.

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Mass schedules and information to attend the Eucharist.