For the past 100 years, Catholic Rural Life has ministered to Catholics like Jim Glisczinski who live and work in a rural setting. As part of his involvement with the organization, Glisczinski hosts seminarians at his farm every fall to learn about
Life on a small organic farm in northeastern Pennsylvania in the cool early days of spring, adapting to the rhythms of planting, livestock care and chores, can sound blissful to anyone buffeted by adult pressures and responsibilities.
Carmina Chapp hopes you think that.
"Family farmers are to be commended for the supportive way in which they work, as well as the for the respectful and gentle way in which they cultivate the land," the pope wrote in a March 19 message to a meeting of
Home to the landmark Edmund Pettus Bridge and other Civil Rights era memories, Alabama's Selma also is home to another effort to strengthen African-American family-owned farms and communities across the Deep South that rely on them: the Edmundite Missions' Black Farmers Initiative.
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France's bishops stand in solidarity with farmers protesting across the country. After days of protests in the local provinces, farmers were determined to block the main roads leading to Paris, with spectacular traffic jams of tractors and farm vehicles they formed Jan.
A federal court decision in favor of a Catholic orchardist in Michigan, who announced that his farm would not host same-sex weddings and was banned from a farmers market as a result, is being hailed as a victory for free speech and
A rural life novena to St. Isidore, patron saint of farmers, begins May 7 and ends May 15, the saint's feast day. Four bishops have agreed to participate in the novena, according to Jim Ennis, executive director of Catholic Rural Life, sponsor
It wasn't a miracle, but the scene that unfolded on Dan and Judy Gotto's farm in Bankston shortly before Christmas became a beautiful testament to faith. In December, members of the family had carefully laid out many small piles of cattle feed