Resources
“The Land Movement is realist. It rejects fashion; it rejects that denial of free will which is involved in the dogma of inevitable progress. It will put back the clock as far as may be necessary to ensure the happiness and integrity of man. When noon is Angelus-time the clock is right.”
Encyclicals and Papal Documents
On Rural Life by Pope Pius XII
Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
Quadragesimo Anno by Pope Pius XI
Laudato Si by Pope Francis
Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV
Books
Flee to the Fields by Hilaire Belloc, Fr. Vincent McNabb, and others
The Outline of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton
Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism by Amintore Fanfani
The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior
The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior
The Church and the Land by Fr. Vincent McNabb
The Church and Farming by Fr. Denis Fahey
An Essay on the Restoration of Property by Hilaire Belloc
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
The Liturgy of the Land by Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn
Localism by Dale Ahlquist (Editor)
The Independent Farmstead by Shawn and Beth Dougherty
Episcopal Endorsements Letters
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Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Pius XI
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Albany, New York
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana
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Green Bay, Wisconsin (Catholic Charities)
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Green Bay, Wisconsin
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La Crosse, Wisconsin
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Richmond, Virginia
Podcast Appearances
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Reality Check | Ep. 1 | Flee to the Fields: The Resurgence of the Catholic Land Movement
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The Catholic Frequency: The Catholic Land Movement
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Thriving the Future: What's New with the Catholic Land Movement
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Action in the Catholic Land Movement
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(Re)building Christian community through Homesteading: an interview with the Catholic Land Movement
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Tex Cathedra Podcast: The Catholic Land Movement
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Restoring the Faith Podcast
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Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree: Michael Thomas of Sharon
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Truth Culture Life Podcast: The Catholic Land Movement
Cross and Plow
Subtitled, "The Organ of the Catholic Land Associations of England and Wales," this serial was the official journal of the Catholic Land Movement founded in Great Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
PDFs of all the original publications can be found here, courtesy of John Carroll University Library.