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
Sister Nirmala from India is 35 years old and is studying Institutional Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, thanks to a CARF scholarship. She tells us about her vocation and the influence of Christian women in her country.
Pope Francis' message for the World Day of Peace on January 1, 2021 is entitled "The Culture of Care as a Path to Peace". Already from the title we see that it is in the wake of the pontificate whose bing-bang was dedicated to the same theme on March 19, 2013.
The Pope speaks about the Christian and Catholic family. "The Christian proclamation concerning the family is truly good news" Amoris Laetitia, 1.
