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
Don Iván Bravo Calvimontes is a diocesan priest from La Paz, Bolivia. He is 37 years old and comes from a family of indigenous roots. He has been parish priest for ten years in a parish of Aymara and peripheral indigenous people. Now, thanks to a CARF scholarship, he is studying Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He tells us about his vocation.
Fr. Cezar Luis Morbach is a priest of the Diocese of Novo Hamburgo in Brazil. He is studying for a doctorate in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome, thanks to a scholarship from CARF. At the age of 14 he began a life far from God, but the Lord found him again at the age of 21.
Giovanni Papini, an Italian intellectual who questioned God, began to read Christian books and found in them an unexpected form of rebellion. Thus was born his History of Christ, now in its 100th year.
