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 scapular is an external sign of Marian devotion, which is based on the consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It can be through affiliation to the Carmelite Order or to other religious orders. The true meaning of the scapular comes from the heart of the wearer. It points to something that is in his interior, in his faith, in his resolutions and in his conversion.
As we do every June 29, we celebrate the Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul. On this day we remember the Christian virtues of two of the greatest witnesses of Jesus Christ, defenders and disseminators of the teachings of the Gospel. Founders of the Church of Rome.
This Italian student named Carlo Acutis was an amateur computer programmer. Throughout his life he collected Eucharistic miracles from around the world and catalogued them on a website he created before his death from leukemia.
