Your bequest or testament of solidarity to the CARF Foundation is your commitment to priestly vocations and our commitment to continue supporting priests and seminarians around the world.
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
Your bequest or testament of solidarity to the CARF Foundation is your commitment to priestly vocations and our commitment to continue supporting priests and seminarians around the world.
The month of October is dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the invocation of Our Lady of the Rosary. The prayer of the Holy Rosary consists of four series of five mysteries. The last of these is dedicated to the Glorious Mysteries.
Simon John Muhangwa is a Tanzanian seminarian studying at the Bidasoa International Seminary and an engineer. He comes from a very Catholic family and is the second child of five children: three boys and two girls. He tells us about his vocation.
