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
On the eve of Pope Francis' trip to Iraq, CARF interviews Aram Pano, a 34-year-old Iraqi priest currently studying Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Aram is the next guest of the CARF Reflection Meeting to be held on Thursday, March 4. He discerned the Lord's call to the priesthood in the Second Gulf War. A vocation born in war.
In the midst of the pandemic crisis, the seminarians of the International Ecclesiastical College Sedes Sapientiae wanted to unite their voices in a song of praise to the Lord. The chosen song "Somos el Pueblo que te ama", composed by Junior Cabrera, director of the Catholic group Alfareros, was sung in more than 13 different languages by the seminarians. Jacobo Lama, promoter of this initiative, tells us how this idea came about.
Blaise is a priest from Cameroon. His life experience, spent in a "joyful precariousness", has led him to always trust in God's Providence. He recounts his testimony.
