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
Riccardo Dimida, an Italian seminarian in Rome, narrates his powerful testimony of conversion and vocation. After a youth marked by excesses, academic successes, work ventures and deep personal crises, Riccardo discovered that the Catholic faith could not only be a complement to his life, but its center.
When you file your income tax return, you can opt for the tax allowance and decide if you want to allocate part of your taxes to the Church by checking its box. And don't forget the one destined to activities of social interest, which also counts.
Divine Mercy Sunday was instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 2000. It coincided with the canonization of St. Faustina Kowalska, the Polish nun who received revelations from Jesus about his mercy.
