The most appreciated gift for a priest is the CARF Sacred Cups box. In quarantine some have been able to celebrate Holy Mass thanks to it.
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 most appreciated gift for a priest is the CARF Sacred Cups box. In quarantine some have been able to celebrate Holy Mass thanks to it.
Nieves is a CARF benefactor who has covered all the formation and study expenses of Tanzanian seminarian Deogratias Method Nyamwihula, who was ordained a priest on July 18 in her country. She writes of her experience to encourage many others to contribute a scholarship to vocations around the world: "The priest is necessary in our lives," she says.
In 2010, the author of these pages was invited to a round table at the Lateran University to present the situation of Pastoral Theology in the Spanish-speaking world, together with other colleagues who would present the part corresponding to other areas.
It is a theological discipline that deals with the reflection and analysis of the practical action of the church, the pastoral ministry, which has had an important development in recent times and is included as a fundamental subject in all theological study programs.
