On October 12 we celebrate the day of Our Lady the Virgin of Pilar. Spain Zaragoza and Hispanidad commemorate 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
On October 12 we celebrate the day of Our Lady the Virgin of Pilar. Spain Zaragoza and Hispanidad commemorate it.
During his apostolic visit to Asia and Oceania, Pope Francis held an interreligious meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia (a country with a large Muslim majority, where there are only 10 % Christians and 3 % Catholics), in the Istiqlal Mosque (cf. Speech 5-IX-2024). The building was designed by a Christian architect and is [...]
Nithin Joji Karimpanmackal, a seminarian from the diocese of Kerala (India), is in his third year of Theology at the University of Navarra and is living and studying in Bidasoa.
