Benedictine College students gather at Tory and Elizabeth Baucums’ apartment to talk about life and learn about human love as part of the John Paul II Fellowship. LEAVEN PHOTO BY JACK FIGGE by Jack FiggeSpecial to The Leaven ATCHISON — Shoes line the hallway, the savory smell of homemade soup wafts through the door and …
Program teaches human dignity to the kids the culture forgot Central School in Atchison, Kansas, isn’t a school for bad kids. Every student in the school is born with thesame inherent human dignity as dwelt in Mahatma Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, Jr., or Abraham Lincoln. Maybe nobody ever told them that before. That’s changing, …
In a remarkable honor, Tory Baucum has been tasked with an enormous responsibility. Tory Baucum, director of Benedictine College’s Center for Family Life, has been elected to the Polish Academy of Sciences and appointed by Polish President Duda to the Copernicus Academy. He will be inducted February 19. Other members of the academy include Nobel …
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Special Event, President of Hungary Katalin Novak, visits Benedictine to discuss the family.
The new center has been doing just that — working with students on campus to tutor Atchison kids, working with 10 parishes throughout the Archdiocese, hosting families from across the United States, and going to the roots of John Paul’s vision of the family in Poland.
My work and study in Poland was where I first got alerted to the threats of Christian nationalism – and thus my warnings about Trump, Putin & Kirill (which btw bothered many friends on FB during 2020 election). I see these trends from that important, but not exclusive, perspective. I saw my warnings to mostly …
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In January 2019 I was in Poland on Retreat at the 1000+ years old Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec. It was the sixth visit to Poland in as many years. I was being drawn into the Catholic Church through the witness of Polish Catholics and the history of Polish literature, especially her poets. I read a …
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Report 5 to Abbot James The last two days I’ve spent in the company of Piotr Czekierda (picture below) and Michal Luczewski, co-founders of the Two Wings Institute (TWI). Teach the lessons of Polish Solidarity and the “transcendental frame” of leadership. Defining Transcendental Leadership TWI serves the common good of Poland beyond self-limiting partisanship by …