Tory Baucum

Tory K. Baucum (born 1960) is the director for the Benedictine Center for Family Life, Atchison, Kansas, US.[1]  After 30 years of ministry as Anglican pastor, seminary and university professor, he and his wife converted to the Catholic Church.  They were prepared by Father Dominic Legge, O.P. and Pastor Paul Scalia of the Arlington Diocese and received by Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Archdiocese of Kansas City, KS.[2]

During the 20th century, Baucum served as pastor of Truro Church, an Anglican church in Virginia. He and Bishop Shannon Johnston of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia settled an ongoing lawsuit over ownership of the Truro property after the Anglican church left the Episcopal church. The Anglican congregation remained in the historic building rent-free with a commitment to maintain the property.[3]  The intrareligious dialogue between Baucum and Johnston was highlighted in the Catholic Journal, Commonweal[4] and featured in Easter edition of the New York Times.[3] Although congregants referred to Baucum as a "peacemaker", some Anglican bishops criticized Baucum's closeness to the Episcopal denomination and friendship with Johnston.[5]

The intrareligious work continued with the establishment of a Peace Institute and an ecumenical board made up of Jews, Black Pentecostals, Catholics and Episcopalians such as Rev. Eugene Rivers, Rabbi Marc Gopin and Bishop Shannon Johnston.

Baucum resigned from his position at Truro Anglican Church in November, 2019. Shortly before Baucum resigned his ministry to convert to Catholicism, staff at the Truro Church sent a letter to the vestry, complaining about the work environment under Baucum.[5] After Baucum’s conversion to Catholicism, he continued the work he began with Rivers, Gopin and Johnston.  On a reconciliation trip to Poland, the government commended Gopin and Baucum and invited them to continue consulting and building up domestic church leaders to counteract the effects of Putin’s Christian Nationalist war on Ukraine.[6]

Baucum works on a comprehensive vision of peace with the family as the basis of peace in the church, society and world internationally, all on display in Poland’s current domestic church mission.  The work begun in Virginia [7] continues in Kansas.[8]

On February 19 2023, Baucum was inducted to the Copernican Academy In Toruń Poland.[9][10]

References
  1. "Center for Family Life | Benedictine College". a-z-WGB-Front. 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  2. "Leading cleric in ACNA plans to enter Roman Catholic Church | Church News Ireland". CNI Church News Ireland. December 12, 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  3. Paulson, Michael (2014-04-19). "Two Ministers Forge Friendship Across a Church Divide". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  4. "Contentious Christians | Commonweal Magazine". www.commonwealmagazine.org. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  5. Weil, Julie Zauzmer (February 21, 2020). "Prominent Fairfax church seeks to explain rector's sudden departure". Washington Post. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  6. "3 Million Refugees and No Refugee Camp? Thank Poland's Catholic Families". Ex Corde at Benedictine College. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  7. Admin (2019-10-24). "Influential Mainline Church Partners with Communio to Strengthen Families in Fairfax, VA". Communio. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  8. Bollig, Joe (2022-07-15). "Archdiocese announces partnership to strengthen marriages". The Leaven Catholic Newspaper. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  9. "Catholic Leaders Weigh in On High Honor Given to Center for Family Life's Tory Baucum". Transforming Culture in America, Benedictine College. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  10. Hoopes, Tom (January 11, 2023). "International Honor Is an Unprecedented Opportunity for Benedictine's Baucum". Benedictine.edu.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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