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
Candles play an important role in the Catholic Church and their origins go back many centuries. In the Old Testament, light was a symbol of faith. With the advent of Jesus, this symbolism has been enriched with new meanings fundamental to the life of the Christian. The light, reflection of the Spirit of God.
On November 1, Christians celebrate All Saints' Day. On this day the Church remembers all those who, having overcome purgatory, have been totally sanctified.
Jesús Eduardo Flores, a young seminarian who discovered his vocation to the priesthood at the age of 30, confesses that God called him to serve Him at a very young age, "and I could not understand what He wanted for me.
