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The mission of the CARF Foundation

To pray for seminarians and diocesan priests; to spread their good name throughout the world; and to promote their integral formation.

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.

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Sacred vessels

To reach the farthest corner of the Earth

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Bequests and wills

The future of the Church depends on you.

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Annual Report

Learn about the activities of the CARF Foundation

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Excellent training to support vocations worldwide.

Thanks to generous people like you, candidates can complete their academic, theological, human and spiritual formation in universities and seminaries in Rome and Pamplona.

Serving the Church

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.

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131 countries send candidates to universities and training centers

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134 beneficiaries have been ordained bishops since 1989.
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2,170 beneficiaries trained by 2023.

Universities supported by the CARF Foundation

The social action board and its volunteers' assistance

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18/10/2024
Don Gustavo Zamudio, parish priest in Lima, reached his adult faith thanks to his studies in Rome.

Gustavo came from a not particularly religious family, but the contact with the Church and his curious arrival to a group of acolytes during his adolescence opened in this young Peruvian a gap through which God entered and which led him to the seminary at the age of 17.

At only 32 years of age, he is now a parish priest in Lima and a university professor, where he brings the message of Christ to young people.

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14/10/2024
St. Paul VI and St. Josemaría Escrivá

For those who work in the School of Theology of the University of Navarre, the canonization of Paul VI is a source of great joy. His memory will always remain alive among us.

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10/10/2024
Carlo Acutis, a teenager who is now a saint: the story of the Internet's patron saint

OMA - They call him "God's influencer", the "cyber apostle of the Eucharist The "cyber-apostle of the Eucharist", "the saint of the net" and is a firm candidate to become the "patron saint of the Internet". His name is Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager with two passions - faith and computers - who died at the age of 15 from fulminant leukemia and who next Saturday, in a solemn ceremony in Assisi, to be presided over by Cardinal Agostino Vallini, will be proclaimed blessed.

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