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
Vianney and Emmanuel-Marie Coulais are two French brothers, seminarians, studying at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. They are also brothers in faith, since they belong to the same religious community, the Work of Jesus the High Priest, of which 21 PUSC students are members, all supported by the CARF Foundation.
The Church dedicates the whole month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with the purpose of venerating, honoring and imitating Jesus especially who has a heart that loves without measure. St. John Paul II said that "this feast recalls the mystery of the Love that God has for men of all times".
The Second Vatican Council states that Jesus, communicating his Spirit, mystically constitutes his brethren, called from all peoples, as his body (Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, 7). The Body of Christ, essential and unique element in the Church, we tell you about it in detail.
