The Catholic Land Movement: A simpler path, a richer life.

Once, life was simpler. We woke with the sun, worked with our hands, and gathered with loved ones under one roof. Faith was our anchor. The land was our home. Families thrived, connected to each other, to the earth, God’s creation, and to God.

But everything has changed. Today, we’re swept up in a world of noise—fast technology, global markets, endless distractions. Big systems—governments, corporations—control so much. They’ve turned families into consumers, homes into markets, relationships into commodities. We’ve lost touch with the land, with each other, with what matters most.

The Catholic Church saw this coming. For almost two centuries, the social teachings of the Church have warned us, these systems undermine small proprietorship, and by doing so, they crush workers, fracture families, and erode communities. The Church and her leading spokesmen, both clerical and lay, have, however, consistently and unapologetically taught that the economy should serve people, not rule them; that the family is the heart of society; and that property – landed property, especially – enables our work, our land, and our lives to lead us to God.

This is why the Catholic Land Movement, though a consistent witness against industrial and  technological tyranny for well over a century, lives again today. Families, priests, young dreamers, and farmers are choosing a different path. They’re returning to the land, growing food, learning trades, building communities rooted in faith. This isn’t about running away—it’s about coming home.

They’re rediscovering subsidiarity: letting families, parishes, and towns take charge of their own lives. They’re homesteading—raising crops, crafting goods, reclaiming the dignity of work. They’re making the family the heart of the economy again, living a vision of beauty, purpose, and community. And they are establishing living examples of those small units of productive property ownership that were, for the greater part of human history, and will be again, the foundation of both national and local economies.

This movement is growing. From small farms to local businesses, from homesteads to parish gardens, these are the seeds of a new Catholic culture. When people see families living this way—rooted in faith, alive with purpose—something stirs. Joy spreads. Hope catches fire. Others can’t help but want to join. 
We’re building the future: families strong in faith, communities vibrant with life, a world where work and worship intertwine. The Catholic Land Movement is proof that life doesn’t need to be complicated to be meaningful. The land calls us back. Faith binds us together. Good order is restored when families are again deeply rooted in their homes, on their homesteads, and in communities that serve and bind those homesteads together.

Our world is not the same, but some things never change: the truth of Jesus Christ, the strength of family, the power of community, the centrality of property. We’re fighting for these things—for our children, for our faith, for our future. The Catholic Land Movement needs you. Join us. Plant the seeds. Build the life you were made for.

The work is immense. The demand is pressing. The time is now. Imagine what we can grow together.

Amazing video

Thank you! 🙏🏻

Beautiful. Ave Maria!

Ave Maria!

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What an inspiration! Thank you for all that you’re doing. CLM is doing important apostolic work - caring for creation, providing mutual aid, educating and facilitating, forming families, resisting the Machine, and giving God the glory. #catholiclandmovement

Thank you Scott! Gloria in excelsis Deo!

@DeaceOnline @DeaceOnline @DeaceProducer it would be interesting to interview someone from this group.

@DeaceOnline @DeaceProducer We would be happy to share our mission with you. Please send us an email through the website.

Blessed be God. This is not a hobby movement. This is not aesthetic traditionalism or “homesteading lite.” This is a prophetic rejection of the modern lie and an embrace of the Catholic vision of man, family, land, labor, and worship. Liberalism was always a parasite on Christendom. The parasite is now killing the host. To live post-liberally is not to abandon the world, but to rebuild it from below, from the hearth, the altar, and the soil. You were not made to be a consumer, a taxpayer, or a citizen of abstraction. You were made to be a father or mother in a home rooted in Christ, sovereign under God, charitable toward your neighbor, and wise in your work. You were made for reality—and it is time to return to it.

This is the way! Well done!

Thank you! We think the video came out great!

It was well produced with a fantastic message. I love your mission. I would love to see some alternate methods such as reinvigorating existing majority Catholic communities and those of us who already have land and roots

I love this

Thank you Rae!

Beautiful! Attended the conference in Indiana this year and want to start a chapter in Bend, Oregon. Pray for us!!

Good Video editing. Now we need a "Homesteading, workshop/University" in order to bridge that gap.

Yes. This is the vision of “demonstration farms.” Remember that when Agrarianism was at it height of productivity it was peer to peer colloquial education in skills that was propelling it. This is what we try to create in the Chapter network.

Love it. Wishing you lots of success, from a non-Catholic. You probably know his work better than I do but if not, a simpatico writer to explore is Wilhelm Ropke.

List of communities? Any in VA/MD/PA areas? I’d like to build a Catholic town.

Ironic joke or undisclosed ad?

The chapter map, from Catholic Land Movement website.

Check back in a few weeks once we get all this new interest oriented! That map is going to explode!

Bravo 👏

Thank you!

I have been in love with Distributism since I first learned about it from a Catholic friend. This is the way to save our country.

Nice idea but does it actually have a coordinated backing? Individual Catholics don’t have the means to just go do this

But they have the means to take first steps, then coordinate…

The Amish have been doing this for quite sometime.

Love it!!

Thank you Nicole!

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Such a great video! So easy to connect to its message. Thanks for putting me and Regina in it. 🥰

I want this

Hm, thoughts about this video. First, I respect the concept behind it. I was raised Catholic but am now Agnostic. However, this is not a denial of the church or god. Just that it appears “more complicated” in real life. To the idea of the land movement. It seems like an alternative to socialism. However, it’s a long time and a far cry from the corporate-first culture we live in today. Best of luck to you.

This recentering on community centric life that starts from faith in Jesus, holds to individual responsibility to homestead to support the whole, is not life a life a western raised person will naturally seek out. The income disparity produced by the industrial revolution has produced a society where the top of the food chain decides the good of the community, eg: "what's good for me is by default good for the community." Not sure how a family on a farm can overwhelm the evil done by an oligarch intent on exposing the world to their newest destructive idea. Eg: the omichron version of C19 has been spliced into 25 versions with the common cold to infect everyone. Why? Can big enough social structures be built in community to "protect" from those desires to impose Their will on the rest of us? I believe that a community built around the unearned Grace Jesus has given is the only way. Catholic as in the form of universal..

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The movement also influenced literature, famously giving rise to “Gone With the Wind”, about the passing folly of trusting in apparently civilized dreams. The heroine always return to the land, Tara, for strength. The land is what endures. (I bring this up every time.)

I like cities. There’s nothing inherently holier or better than living on a farm compared to a city

This is fantastic! Well done.

Thank you!

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@AlexShengo This is like the opposite of the protestant work ethic?

An important question is”was Jesus pro-Family or trans-Family.

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I can’t take this seriously when you have food being served out of a crock pot. It’s no different than when you realize that the Amish use iPhones at work. If you consider it and treat it as a movement of radical denial to self? Then yes, you’re onto something. If you consider it some return to how things used to be? Nuh uh. Corporations built those grills, built those tents you’re using outside, and even mined the raw ore used to construct literally everything you’re using.

“Do not let the total perfect become the enemy of the incremental good.”

Socialists use the same argument. Not buying it. People used to spend around 40% of their income on food. Now they spend closer to 10%. Going back to that means that a lot of people suffer.