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
Reconstructing the conversation of Jesus with the two pilgrims to Emmaus, tracing his words in the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospels and the Old Testament, could summarize the book Why do you walk sadly? It was written by Joaquín Paniello, a priest living in Jerusalem, and presented at an Omnes Forum on the Holy Land, which was also attended by Piedad Aguilera, from the Pilgrimages Unit of Viajes El Corte Inglés.
The sorrowful mysteries of the Holy Rosary make us meditate on how Our Lord was able to accept God's will and freely give his life for all of us.
Temesgen is a priest from Ethiopia who is studying in Rome at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, thanks to a CARF scholarship. He is studying Biblical Theology because in his Vicariate there is no priest trained in this subject. He tells us his testimony.
