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
Pablo Fernández and Luis Escandell are novices of the Servants of the Home of the Mother, a community of Marian spirituality and apostolate focused on young people. Pablo and Luis study theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (PUSC) while evangelizing on the Catholic Stuff Youtube channel. They tell us how they heard the call to leave everything and follow Christ as religious and priests.
Mon Carmelo Fidel Marcaida is a 27-year-old deacon from the Diocese of Masbate, Philippines. He studied theology at the Bidasoa International Seminary in Pamplona. He has just returned to his country where he was ordained deacon on September 26, 2022. God willing, he will be ordained to the priesthood in March 2023. For him, two of the most important virtues in evangelization among young people are a smile and always being present when they need you.
Anh Dao Quoc is a 27-year-old seminarian from Vietnam and belongs to the diocese of Hanoi. He is finishing his theology studies at the Bidasoa International Seminary in Pamplona and will return to his diocese. He tells us how to make Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church known in a country where the majority of the population is Buddhist or atheist.
