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
Joseph Dinh Quang Hoan is a priest of the Diocese of Thai Binh, one of the smallest in northern Vietnam. He was born in this same city on February 3, 1989, and today he is in Rome studying for a Licentiate in Theology (specialization in Liturgy) thanks to the help of the benefactors of the CARF Foundation.
Edicson Acosta is a young Venezuelan priest from the Diocese of San Cristobal, located in the western part of Venezuela and home to more than 1.5 million Catholics. This graduate in Biology and Chemistry confirmed his vocational call during some visits to the seminary.
We have the month of May to dedicate it especially to Our Mother, the Virgin Mary. But why is May the month of the Virgin? If the Church is celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus, why is Mary also honored in this month?
