An Old Lost Awareness
We do have an urgent practical need to rediscover, reassert, and enact more fully our old lost awareness that God's delicate creation is a good and holy thing.
Life From Our Land
Maybe it is here that my experience of trying to be a farmer and living “on the land” taught me the most about what salvation and living the Gospel truly means.
Well Begun Is Half Done
Alongside the staggering achievements in production values, stands the more sobering statistics concerning the social goods of American agricultural life.
The Place of Faith in the Geography of Hope
Retrieving a Catholic theology of creation may finally give us grounds for hope in some of the most vexing matters facing us today.
A Response to ‘The Greening of America, Catholic Style'
Hamlin and McGreevy are among the few to have noticed that there was an effort to bring Catholic intellectual tradition to bear upon Catholic rural life.
The Forgotten Agrarian
It is not so much a matter of Adam Smith “defending” capitalism as it is of capitalists appropriating Smith, and often against his expressed wishes.
On the Decline of Rural Life: An Empty Schoolhouse
As Industrialization took hold of the rural countryside, the family farm became a way of the past.
The Land
If farming is looked on simply as a means of making money, the town will necessarily attract the worker to the detriment of the land.
The African Who Brought Chesterton to Sierra Leone
“I had discovered Gilbert Keith Chesterton,” says Kanu, “and I wanted to apply his ideas about man and economics to my country."
Five Years a Farmer: Lessons in Community and Hardship
Kevin Ford shares why faith and community are essential for the sustainment of Catholic rural life.
Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement
The agricultural monoliths of Agribusiness will not be dethroned through litigation; they will be dethroned through social consciousness and decision making about food.
How to Eat Like A Hobbit
As even cursory readers of books "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" know, Hobbits like to eat well and often. They also take their time.
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism
Ligutti's book, published in 1940, thoroughly documents the dramatic effects of capitalism on rural communities.
CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism
When Distributism is applied to agrarianism, it calls for the widest possible distribution of productive land.
From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land
A little more than a year ago, I quit my job as a theology teacher at a Catholic high school to become a full-time organic farmer.
What Happened to Our Health Freedom?
If the goal of economic activity is to make money, and health means fewer opportunities to sell pharmaceutical drugs, health becomes irrelevant.
Hard Times in Farm Country
The destruction of productive wealth is not good for farms and ranches and it’s not good for rural or urban communities either.
Tilling Fertile Soil
We realize that the fertile soil that we have been tilling is our intellect and will to the good of our country and to the glory of God.
Roadside GMO Corn
Defenders of GMO get all excited that with GMOs, farmers don't have to use pesticides that people like them were so excited about fifty years ago.
Flee to the Fields
Flee to the Fields presents a defense of the movement that had such prestigious backers as Belloc, Chesterton, and Fr. Vincent McNabb.