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
Mathias is a young seminarian from the Archdiocese of Mwanza, Tanzania. He is 23 years old and studies at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. "My diocese needs good priests to help young people against the loss of values and drugs," he says.
On June 13, Pope Francis published his message for the Sixth World Day of the Poor, to be celebrated on the same day next November. The motto summarizes the teaching and the proposal: "Jesus Christ became poor for your sake (cf. 2 Cor 8:9)".
This 37-year-old Ugandan priest arrived in Pamplona without speaking Spanish and two years later returned to Africa in love with the culture, history and gastronomy of Spain. In this interview with CARF he tells us why the Church in Uganda is prepared to send Ugandan priests to other continents in the face of the great vocation crisis.
