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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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Bequests and wills

The future of the Church depends on you.

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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.

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Universities supported by the CARF Foundation

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14/11/2022
Msgr. Arjan Dodaj: from communism to priesthood
Jorge Gordo Moreno-CARF
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The Archdiocese of Tirana-Durrës is a Latin ecclesiastical circumscription of the Catholic Church in Albania. Pope Francis appointed Rev. Arjan Dodaj auxiliary bishop of this archdiocese, assigning him the titular see of Lestrona, on April 9, 2020 at the age of 43. Raised in an atheist and communist culture, he converted and discovered his vocation to the priesthood. Today he is Metropolitan Archbishop of Tirana-Durrës. He tells for the CARF Foundation about his conversion from communism to become a bishop.

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10/11/2022
Europe's spiritual crisis: Joseph Weiler
Roymo Development
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Joseph Weiler, winner of the Ratzinger Theology Prize 2022, was the speaker at the Omnes-CARF Forum on The Spiritual Crisis of Europe. In a packed Aula Magna in the Masters Building of the University of Navarra, in Madrid, the American constitutionalist shared the keys and reflections on current European thought.

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30/10/2022
Rocío Fumanal: "God has a story for everyone".
Jorge Gordo Moreno-CARF
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When you meet Rocío Fumanal, all your problems vanish. She radiates hope and makes your complaints disappear. This 22 year old girl manages to transmit a new energy in your life. She is an example of strength. Rocio's destiny changed completely after she was involved in a car accident when she was about to work as a monitor at a summer youth camp. She says that her mother, from heaven, saved her life. "I felt her embrace. My mother gave me a second chance to live, and I know that now I live for both of us". 

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