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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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Learn about the activities of the CARF Foundation

See report 2023

Bequests and wills

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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.

Universities supported by the CARF Foundation

Social Action Board

CARF Foundation Volunteers

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Encounter between intellectual life and Christianity

Maritain knew how to demonstrate that faith does not limit or imprison the intelligence. On the contrary, it stimulates it and opens it to broader horizons.

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Spiritual coaching: we need it

In this springtime, the Gospel presents us with a country scene: a flock grazing in green pastures, and a man tending them. It is an ancient image in the cultures of the Near East: presenting the king as a "shepherd", that is, as someone who guides in search of food, and protects his people.

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Mr. Tadeo Velázquez Centeno

Young Mexican priest, from the Archdiocese of Leon, located in the center of the country and home to almost three million Catholics, people of great religiosity and very devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

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The amazing power of forgiveness

In her book The Human Condition, Hanna Arendt (ed. Paidós, Barcelona 1993, pp. 255-262) explains, at an anthropological level, the amazing power of forgiving and asking for forgiveness

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World Day for Vocations: Two Venezuelans to be ordained deacons in Spain

On May 8, the World Day for Vocations will be celebrated. Julio César Morillo (35 years old) and Jesús Jaime Meleán (31 years old) both from the Diocese of Cabimas (Venezuela) will be ordained deacons in Spain.

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Augustine, religious of Miles Christi: from "Sunday Christian" to priest

Agustín Seguí is a young Argentinean religious, 29 years old, who belongs to the Miles Christi Institute. He is studying the Baccalaureate in Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, thanks to a scholarship from CARF. His brother, Mariano, is also a religious of the same Congregation and will join the UPSC next year.

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