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The mission of the CARF Foundation

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

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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Annual Report

Learn about the activities of the CARF Foundation

See report 2023

Bequests and wills

The future of the Church depends on you.

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Comprehensive training to support vocations around the world.

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 students trained in 2023.

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Universities supported by the CARF Foundation

The social action board and its volunteers' assistance

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10/06/2024
CARF Foundation and Altomonte Priestly College: a vital link for formation

Discover how the CARF Foundation collaborates with the Altomonte Priestly College in Rome for the integral formation of priests and the strengthening of the Catholic Church.

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07/06/2024
"I will be a priest, but you have to give me the love for the vocation. "1

As a teenager, Giacomo Pari felt the call of God, but panic and uncertainty prevented him from making any decision. "Listen, if you want me to be a priest, that's fine, but you have to give me the love for the vocation because I don't have it now," he asked his Father God with all the confidence of a son.

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06/06/2024
How seminarians from more than 23 countries live at Rome Seminary

Laerth Ferreira is already a 36-year-old priest from the diocese of Bonfim, Brazil. He was a theology student at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and lived in Rome with covid.

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