Leading Anglican’s Powerful Conversion To Be Featured on EWTN

Dr. Tory Baucum, Director of Benedictine College’s Center for Family Life, will be featured on EWTN’s The Journey Home with Marcus Grodi on Monday, August 28 at 7 p.m. Central. The episode will feature a discussion of Baucum’s compelling conversion to Catholicism through the influence of Pope Saint John Paul II. The wide-ranging conversation will …

Talks, Hikes, Sports and Prayer: Family Week Brings Spiritual Family Vacations to America

Shared Post from Benedictine College No wonder it doubled in size in less than a year. Parents glimpsed the heights, children explored the depths, and together they celebrated the joy of the Catholic faith at Family Week 2023 at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Internationally renowned theologians, speakers, experts in children’s formation and religious were …

A Greatness No One Can Take Away

A Greatness No One Can Take Away

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, …

International Honor Is an Unprecedented Opportunity for Benedictine’s Baucum

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 …

Tory Baucum Family Conference

Tory Baucum on Poland’s Remarkable Response to the Refugee Crisis

Tory Baucum, director of the Center for Family Life at Benedictine College, shares his insights on Poland’s unique response to the refugee crisis and the role of the domestic church in helping families stay on track. Tory Baucum says something incredible is happening in Poland. “You have more than a million refugees absorbed into a …

Christian nationalism

A journey of awareness about Christian nationalism

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 …

Ukraine and Poland: A background story on my pilgrimage into the Domestic Church.

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 …

Knights of Columbus in Poland Donate to Ukraine

Last report to Abbot James Breakfast with Syzmon Czyszek, head of Knights of Columbus in Poland. Syzmon and KofC are leading a major relief ministry across the border with their sister organization in Ukraine. Knights of Columbus in Poland Donate to Ukraine. They are helping, along with others, 100k refugees a DAY! Again, there are …