Ordinary Catholic households, becoming producers — together.
The Catholic Land Movement exists to help Catholics resettle onto productive land they own. Here in Central Texas, that work starts wherever you are.
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Many of us long for work centered in the home, food raised by neighbors, and parishes where people actually need each other. We miss the simple traditions that make the family what God created it to be: the heart of society.
Family, faith, and place are gifts we receive, not things we build from a plan. A good culture grows slowly, from tending what we’ve been given. We help households become places that make, grow, and give, not just consume. Whether you’re planning a rural resettlement or simply learning to bake sourdough, we’re here to connect, teach, and build alongside you — across every parish from Austin to San Antonio.
We didn’t start this. A hundred years ago most of Britain’s Catholics were packed into industrial cities, and in 1929 a handful of them in Glasgow set out to get families back onto land of their own. They founded the first Catholic Land Association — to buy land, train townsmen to farm it, and settle families on it — and they had the hierarchy behind them from the start. Associations followed in the North, the Midlands and the South of England, with bishops standing as their presidents and patrons. They were answering Leo XIII, who had written in Rerum Novarum that the law should help as many people as possible become owners. Pius XI sent them his Apostolic Blessing in 1933. In November of 2025, Pope Leo XIV recognized the Catholic Land Movement and extended that same blessing to our work.