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
Philosopher, theologian, professor, expert in administration and business with an MBA... and also bishop. This is the rich and varied profile of Monsignor César Alcides Balbín Tamayo, bishop of the Colombian diocese of Cartago, which he took possession of just a few months ago, on December 8, 2021. He was previously pastor of the small diocese of Caldas.
To renew the Catholic marriage vows is to confirm and reaffirm the oath of eternal love, respect and fidelity already made during the sacrament of marriage before God.
D. Bolivar is a priest from Ecuador. He was a student at the Bidasoa Seminary, was ordained in 2011 in his homeland and returned to Pamplona in 2019 to continue his studies. He was appointed rector of the priestly residence Father Barace in Pamplona: "The care of priests is a divine task. You have to create a family atmosphere," he says.
