Verax Patria
Truthful Homeland
Restoring The Contemplative Soul & Cultivating Catholic Land
OUR PURPOSE
Catholic
Men & Women
Who Live The Gospel
In an ever-changing world, we remain true to Jesus Christ and the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church. We expand Catholic Land, develop rural life for Catholic families, and spread High Catholic Culture through the witness of our lives.
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WHO WE ARE:
In Latin Verax Patria means "Truthful Homeland". With our eyes and hearts fixed on Heaven, the true homeland, we work to mirror on earth what we behold in Heaven through the virtue of Faith. Thus we strive to live the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our organization contributes to the restoration of the contemplative soul through Moral Formation and the cultivation of Catholic Land.
Verax Patria offers grants to subsidize family farms and homesteads where regenerative farming practices are implemented. We also offer grants to non profit organizations that build up the common good by strengthening local economy in rural towns throughout the USA.
Land Projects
western pennsylvania
Catholic Community being built 40 min from Pittsburgh, 30 mins from Steubenville, OH. Building a Demonstration Farm in Western Pennsylvania.
Verax Patria Farm & Homestead.
Affordable land and homes. Contact Andrew Ewell for more details.
southwest ohio
South West Ohio Farm Succession Planning. As a beneficiary of impact investments, we are restoring a Catholic Rural Community.
We are currently raising impact investment funds which will foster both the social impact detailed within The Catholic Agrarian Institute and create a return on investment through a lease to purchase land/home model.
northeast ohio
Arx Veritatis is a 700 acre Artisan & Liberal Arts School currently expanding within the region of North East Ohio. There is currently 40 acres of pasture that operates as a third-generation beef, chicken, and egg farm.
We are currently helping fill multiple paid positions for this initiative:
1. Timber Framer (immediately available)
2. Butcher (immediately available)
4. Beer Brewer / Distiller
3. Leather Worker
4. Blacksmith
Kentucky
A 30 acre property is being built by a young Catholic Family. They are planning to build out this land and intentionally invite family and friends to join them in their new settlement.
Contact us for more details to introduce you this this KY Catholic Family. The owner is a veteran.
East-Central Missouri
Near Institute of Christ the King Parish.
Oblates from Clear Creek Monastery in MO are building something beautiful. Domestic Monastery being built via a Catholic family of six. Friends of The Benedictines of Mary in Gower, MO.
30 min from St Louis - multigenerational family homestead, Catholics who can teach agrarian skills. Troops of St George and Young Ladies Guild.
ville platte, louisiana
In the town of Ville Platte, Louisiana, there is an opportunity for a family to move onto land and join a thriving Catholic Community. Tenant Farmer Opportunity. Use of tools, home to live in temporarily, learn agrarian skills from a sixth-generation Catholic farmer from Ville Platte (animal husbandry, butchery, building, growing crops, gardening, and more).
Olde Urbanism
Olde Urbanism is a branch of Verax Patria focused on providing grants for Catholic Urban Revitalization.
Our current projects are in Jacksonville, FL & Pittsburgh, PA.
Legacy Land Grant
Email project summary to:
Documenting Key Details for Legacy Land Grant™ Consideration
As part of the Legacy Land Grant™ application process, Verax Patria requires applicants to provide a detailed Project Summary. This summary allows us to evaluate:
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Alignment with our mission
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The feasibility of the proposed land project
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The applicant group’s commitment to Catholic parish life, economic renewal, and cultural restoration
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The potential for building a sustainable Catholic agrarian society rooted in the common good
We work with families in groups, rather than individuals, because the Catholic life is meant to be lived in community. This requirement ensures your group is prepared to cooperate in a shared vision of land stewardship, parish life, and cultural flourishing.
In the Project Summary, include:
1. Group & Family Introduction
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Introduce the group of families applying together.
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Provide brief background information for each family, including:
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Names of family members
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How long you have been Catholic (or if a convert, when you entered the Church)
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Parish name, pastor’s name, and frequency of Mass attendance
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Roles and ministries each family currently serves in within the parish
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2. Catholic Economy Engagement
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Describe any current participation in local Catholic trade, small business, or cooperative ventures.
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Explain how your families intend to rebuild the local Catholic economy through farming, trades, services, or artisanal work.
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Identify how these activities will be anchored in your parish and serve the needs of fellow parishioners.
3. Homesteading or Farming Experience
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Share any prior homesteading, farming, gardening, or livestock experience among the group.
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List current employment for each family, including job titles, employers, and monthly incomes.
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Explain how your current skills and trades will integrate into a local agrarian community.
4. Current Home & Land Situation
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State whether each family currently owns or rents their home.
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For homeowners: provide the estimated value of the home and the amount of equity.
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Describe how your current living situation influences your desire to transition to land-based living in a parish-centered community.
5. Collaborative Purchase Plan
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List the number of families in your group and their shared vision.
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Explain how the group has discerned living and working together on land.
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Describe the governance, responsibilities, and mutual support agreements among families.
6. Property Details
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Provide address or location of the land you intend to purchase.
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Include: acreage, water sources, existing buildings, soil quality, proximity to parish, and local infrastructure.
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Explain how the land supports both food production and Catholic cultural life.
7. Grant Request Information
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Specify the amount of grant funding requested (grants are offered to cover the monthly interest on a mortgage)
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Give a clear breakdown of how funds will be used (e.g., land purchase assistance, fencing, livestock, housing improvements).
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Show how grant funds will complement other financial contributions from the group.
8. Financial Readiness
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List all current debts for each family (credit cards, auto loans, student loans, mortgages).
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Provide total amounts owed and monthly payments.
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Include each family’s Debt-to-Income Ratio (DTI) and whether they have a plan to be debt-free within 5 years (not including mortgage debt).
9. Vision for Catholic Culture on the Land
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Describe your long-term vision for how the land will serve the parish and Catholic community.
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Include:
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Hosting liturgies if feasible, feast day celebrations, and parish gatherings
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Providing food for parish events or the needy
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Offering educational workshops on farming, trades, or Catholic social teaching
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Creating spaces for Catholic art, music, and traditions to thrive
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Explain how this vision reflects the common good, rooted in subsidiarity and solidarity.
This Project Summary will serve as the foundation for evaluating your group’s application and advancing to the next stage of the grant approval process.
We recommend families read
Liturgy of The Land by Jason Craig &
Tommy VanHorn and
Independent Farmstead by The Dougherty's
Catholic Diocesan Consortium
Expanding High Catholic Culture
Catholic Dioceses are welcomed to join our efforts. Contribute to our mission of expanding the Beauty of Catholic Social Order and developing new Christian Societies by becoming a Verax Patria Partner.
Our organization contributes to the restoration of the contemplative soul through Moral Formation and the cultivation of Catholic Land. We are co-workers with God, praying and working to see that souls, beginning with our own, in the words of the Seraphic Doctor St. Bonaventure, reflect more noticeably the celestial hierarchy (The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost). As a grassroots Catholic movement, we advance Faith, family, and Tradition through our paterfamilias network, strategically building new Christian societies two families at a time.
Through the ownership and development of Catholic Land, our fraternal consortium is restoring and continuing multigenerational Catholic legacies within the context of domestically productive households (homesteads). We support and offer contemplative solitudes for Priests, Religious, and families within Catholic Agrarian Life- a place to encounter the Living God, repent, believe in the Gospel, and joyfully embrace a life of true penance. Our Family Partners have the ability to host young couples or families who are interested in strengthening or beginning a Multigenerational Catholic Legacy within the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
Through advocating and fostering total consecration to Jesus through the Immaculate, we actively advance the Kingdom of God on earth, participating in the growth and expansion of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church.
In sum, our restoration efforts are focused on:
1. The Moral Formation prerequisite to infused contemplation. In the words of St. Bonaventure, the hierarchizing of the contemplative soul (anima contemplativa) unto a reflection of the New Jerusalem.
2. Promoting, supporting, and encouraging authentic and traditional Religious and Priestly vocations.
3. Preparing men and women to receive the Sacrament of Matrimony through the tradition of the Church (i.e. Spiritual Friendship/Courtship/Rite of Betrothal) who desire to build a multi-generational Catholic Homestead.
4. Connecting two Catholic families at a time within the same geographic location who desire to begin and live within an agrarian Catholic Community. Training & Developing Artisans through The Catholic Land Movement.
Our Catholic Family Partners are vetted via Verax Patria to ensure the purity of Catholic Faith & Morals are being upheld, lived, and embraced within their marriage. We are bound to bear witness to one another the glory of a life well lived because through Baptism we are bound to Christ Jesus who bore witness to the Father.
Please contact us to learn more about the criterion we use to vet our Family Partners. If you would like to apply, please contact us to join our consortium network.
We hope you will benefit from the grace which God is providing us, and become inspired through our purpose, mission, and impact.
"Nolite Timere!”
In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae +
Andrew Ewell
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Inquiries
To apply for a loan please fill out the questions provided above and email us. For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please email or fill out the form below:
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Head Office
Donation payable
Legal name of organization:
Verax Patria Partnership Corporation
EIN for payable organization: 93-2419250
124 Cook Stewart Ln
Hookstown, PA 15050