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
In the church of the Royal Seminary of San Carlos in Zaragoza, images of Aragonese saints or those related to the Society of Jesus predominate, as they were carved by Jesuit sculptors for a temple that is an apotheosis of the Baroque. One of the saints represented is a saint from Zaragoza who won the hearts of the Portuguese people: Queen Isabel, daughter and granddaughter of Jaime I and Pedro III of Aragon, and married to King Dionís of Portugal.
No one is a priest in his own right but participates in the priesthood of Christ.
This priest of the Diocese of Escuintla (Guatemala) offers an accurate analysis of the situation of Catholicism in his country, where the advance of sects and evangelical groups is doing great damage to the Church.
