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
The Church proposes to all Christians to follow the example of Christ in his retreat to the desert, we prepare ourselves, in this time of Lent for the celebration of the Easter solemnities, with the purification of the heart, and a penitential attitude.
Pope Francis' homily on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (1-I-2022) is a good way to approach the new year. In Mary's school we learn what we all need.
This celebration of the Chair of St. Peter not only recalls the authority of St. Peter, but also highlights the help that the Church provides through communion and the teaching of the Gospel.
