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
Andrei Ventanilla shoulders the burden of youth ministry in the largest archdiocese of the Church in the Philippines: Cebu. Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics face major challenges, secularization and the influence of various ideologies that seek to distance them from God. This is where this priest, trained in Pamplona with the help of the CARF Foundation, comes into the picture.
Eloi Chiramal is a 24-year-old Indian seminarian from the Syro-Malabar archieparchy of Thrissur, in the state of Kerala. Since September 22, he has been studying theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. His interest in the priesthood runs in the family; his father wanted to become a priest and his brother Joel will be ordained in December of this year. He tells us his story in first person.
When we speak of sacred vessels we refer to the liturgical objects necessary for the celebration of the Holy Mass, also responsible for the proper preservation of the body of Christ. We tell you all the elements contained in the Case (now backpack) of Sacred Vessels of the CARF Foundation.
