Spirituality
Tonganoxie Baptist church to install new pastor
Tonganoxie First Baptist Church, Sixth and Green streets, will install its new pastor, the Rev. Weldon D. Jolly, at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Jolly, right, succeeds the Rev. Edward E. Hobby, who served 48 years as pastor of the Tonganoxie church.
The Rev. Samuel Marshall, associate minister at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo., will provide the message during the 10:45 a.m. Sunday service. The Rev. Stevie A. Wakes, pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, will provide the 3 p.m. message.
Jolly is completing his master of divinity degree at the St. Paul School of Theology. He has experience in Christian education and counseling, jail and prison ministry, and as an interim pastor for several churches. He served as chaplain for the Kansas City chapter of the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Executives and chaplain intern at the Veterans Administration Hospital.
He and his wife, Jacky Watson-Jolly, have three adult children.
Pope honors group’s founder
The founder of the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei will be elevated to sainthood this October, receiving a posthumous honor in 27 years that’s often bestowed on notable Catholics only after centuries.
Some are skeptical about the rise of Spanish priest JosemarEscrive Balaguer, seen in the poster above left, among Catholicism’s great names, questioning his virtue and what’s seen as elitism and odd practices in the organization he founded.
But with unswerving allegiance to church teaching, Escrivnd Opus Dei have long had a powerful champion Pope John Paul II.
Founded in Spain in 1928, Opus Dei has more than 80,000 members worldwide, most of them lay people and many well-educated professionals.
John Paul, dismayed by the flagging faith of many rank-and-file Catholics, has been intrigued by the group for decades.
Episcopals consider special bishops for conservatives
The Episcopal Church hierarchy has approved a “covenant” allowing special visiting bishops to serve conservative congregations that oppose regular resident bishops who favor gay clergy ordinations and blessings of same-sex couples.
Under the plan, however, each resident bishop would decide whether to invite such a visiting bishop.
Those attending last week’s meeting of U.S. Episcopal bishops decided existing church law permits “supplemental Episcopal pastoral care” as a “temporary arrangement” until concord between a congregation and bishop can be restored.