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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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12/05/2024
9 points of Christian moral education

Many people today are asking themselves about moral education and specifically Christian moral education. In addition to its anthropological foundations, it is interesting to ask directly about its contents: what does Christian morality consist of, does it add anything to ethics or "human morality", and what are its main and, if one wants to put it this way, specific contents? Only by taking these contents into account can the educator of the faith consider at the same time the methods and didactic resources for this education.

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10/05/2024
Tomás Licheri, vocation to the priesthood

Tomas Licheri Bondesio tells us how a young religious seminarian of the Servants of the Home of the Mother lives his vocation. He is currently in Rome studying the first cycle of Philosophy at the PUSC (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) thanks to the support of the CARF Foundation.

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08/05/2024
Alice Topno, from India, where Catholics are a minority.

Sister Alice Topno is a missionary belonging to the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Anne, DSA (Ranchi, India), an institution of the Church founded in her country in which all the members are Indian.

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